Jay B. Lutz
berkeley, ca
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Benefit for John Havard + release of his CD "Sideman"
Where: Starry Plough
Date: 2007-08-26 13:00:00
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Benefit with Unreal Band, David Elias and the Casualtees, Sabrosa, Claddagh Band, the Scoundrels, & members of Huston Jones, plus release of John's CD Sideman. The John Havard Benefit Fund was created to provide financial assistance for John to continue his battle with cancer. To date, the myriad medical treatments John has undergone have shown success but, the battle continues. Not only has John continued to perform but, he has recently completed a new CD. Along with the the proceeds from benefit concerts that the musical community has performed, CD & T-Shirt sales continue to generate resources to assist John in managing his illness. All proceeds from CD sales, and all profits from T-Shirt sales go directly to The John Havard Benefit Fund.
Y!RB Brain Jam: Eric Paulos (Intel Research Berkeley) - Part...
Where: Yahoo! Research Berkeley
Date: 2007-06-01 15:00:00
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(Free and open to the public - and followed at 4pm with a Social Jam that includes refreshments - and beer. It would be helpful if you mark attending/watching above). Participatory Urbanism: Empowering Everyday Civic Engagement and Promoting Wonderment ABSTRACT: Our mobile devices are more than just personal communication tools. They are globally networked, speak the lingua franca of the city (SMS, Bluetooth, MMS), and are becoming the dominant urban processor. We need to shatter our understanding of them as phones and celebrate them in their new role as measurement instruments. My desire is to invigorate our mobile devices with new “super-powers” and “super-senses” by enabling a wide range of physical sensors to be easily attached and used by anyone, especially non-experts. In this talk I will present a selection of foundation work in the field of Urban Computing and address an important new shift in mobile device usage from communication tool to “personal-super-computer-radio- station-with-sensors”. I demonstrate how these “instruments” create an influential new paradigm of Participatory Urbanism - empowering everyday citizens to become proactive in their involvement with neighborhood, city, and planet. Finally, I expose the impact of Participatory Urbanism with the design of a mobile tool for authoring, sharing, and remixing air quality measurements on-the-go with a focus on environmental awareness, sustainability, and green lifestyles. BIO: Eric Paulos is a Senior Research Scientist at Intel in Berkeley, California where he is the founder and director of the Urban Atmospheres research group - challenged to employ innovative methods to explore urban life and the future fabric of emerging technologies across public urban landscapes. His areas of expertise span a deep body of research territory in urban computing, social telepresence, robotics, physical computing, interaction design, persuasive technologies, and intimate media. Eric is a leading figure in the field of urban computing and is a regular contributor, editorial board member, and reviewer for numerous professional journals and conferences. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley where he helped launch a new robotic industry by developing some of the first internet tele- operated robots including Space Browsing helium filled blimps and Personal Roving Presence devices (PRoPs). Eric is also the founder and director of the Experimental Interaction Unit and a frequent collaborator with Mark Pauline of Survival Research Laboratories. Eric's work has been exhibited at the InterCommunication Center (ICC) in Japan, Ars Electronica, ISEA, SIGGRAPH, the Dutch Electronic Art Festival (DEAF), SFMOMA, the Chelsea Art Museum, Art Interactive, LA MOCA, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the ZKM, and a performance for the opening of the Whitney Museum’s 1997 Biennial Exhibition.
Y!RB Brain Jam, August 17th: Joe McCarthy, NRC - Friendsters...
Where: Yahoo! Research Berkeley
Date: 2007-08-17 15:00:00
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Free and open to the public, followed at 4pm with a Social Jam that includes refreshments - and beer. It would be helpful if you mark attending/watching above. Joe McCarthy, NRC Friendsters at Work: Displaying Social Media Streams in the Workplace ABSTRACT: Online social media services enable people to share many aspects of their personal interests and passions with friends, acquaintances and strangers. Much of the attention on such services – in the traditional media as well as scientific literature – has focused on the use and impact of such services on interconnections and interactions among friends and family. Although there is a growing appreciation for the value of friendships in work settings, relatively little attention has been devoted to how sharing through social media services can help foster stronger relationships in the workplace. At Nokia Research Center Palo Alto, we are embarking on an investigation into the use of a new generation of proactive displays – large computer displays that can sense and respond in contextually appropriate ways to the people nearby. Our new Context, Content and Community Collage proactive display application is running on 8 LCD touchcomputers recently deployed throughout our lab. Nearby people are sensed via Bluetooth phones, and the response is an incrementally generated ambient collage of photos from Flickr profiles they have chosen to share. The presentation will highlight the motivations, goals, design and early deployment experiences with the proactive display application. This research is part of Context, Content and Community project at NRC Palo Alto, and was made possible primarily through the tireless efforts of three of our interns, Max Harper, Ben Congleton and Jiang Bian. BIOGRAPHY: Joe McCarthy is a Principal Instigator at Nokia Research Center Palo Alto, where he is committed to the design, development and deployment of technologies to help people relate to one another. Joe’s career includes earlier roles as an entrepreneur, research scientist, professor, consultant, and musician. Other roles currently played include husband, father and wine aficionado. Additional information about Joe can be found at his official web site (http://research.nokia.com/people/joe_mccarthy) and his unsanctioned weblog (http://gumption.typepad.com/blog).
The Zydeco Flames
Where: Ashkenaz
Date: 2007-08-28 20:30:00
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The Sydeco Flames features Lloyd Meadows, Frank Bohan, Timm Walker and William Allums, Jr.
Shohei Imamura's Japan
Where: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Date: 2007-06-19 19:30:00
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The Japanese master Shohei Imamura is famous for the controversial subject matter and raw energy of his films. Imamura's Japan is a sensual and often cruel universe untouched by the tea ceremony, Zen, or conventional gentility.
Y!RB Brain Jam: Diane Demee-Benoit - The Global Warming Cris...
Where: Yahoo! Research Berkeley
Date: 2007-05-18 15:00:00
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(Free and open to the public - and followed at 4pm with a Social Jam that includes refreshments - and beer. It would be helpful if you mark attending/watching above). TITLE: The Global Warming Crisis: Causes, Consequences & Solutions ABSTRACT: Starting with "An Earth in the Balance," and continuing in lectures and efforts leading up to the film and book, "An Inconvenient Truth," Al Gore has made it a mission to inform the public about the science and effects of global warming. Now, through The Climate Project, Mr. Gore is leading a community dedicated to informing citizens about the realities of global warming, and the actions required to fight this crisis. Diane Demee-Benoit is one of 1,000 people selected to present the information delivered in "An Inconvenient Truth" to audiences across America. Global warming has become a true planetary emergency. Come hear about the scientific evidence and the alarming changes we're seeing, and learn about the actions we must take today to fight this crisis. BIOGRAPHY: Diane Demée-Benoit is Director of the Innovation in Education Project at the Commonwealth Club of California and a consulting online editor at The George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF). She has been a leader in science education and learning in informal education settings for over 20 years and has worked on a number of regional and national projects linking teachers with the real-world science and technology work of zoos, aquariums, museums, and science centers. Additionally, Ms. Demée-Benoit has been a field reviewer for the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMS), and has served on peer review panels for the National Science Foundation. She served on the Information Technology Committee for the Association of Science- Technology Center's Informal Science Educators Network (ASTC-ISEN) and currently serves on the board of the National NatureMapping Program, which trains citizen scientists to map and monitor changes in flora and fauna. - - - - Yahoo! Research Berkeley's Brain Jam is an "almost weekly" speaker series on topics related to media, social media, mobile media, media annotation, and the leftist media. Well, maybe not the last one. To join our mailing list, please visit: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/yrb-bj/
In the Steel of the Night...(a pedal steel guitar extravagan...
Where: Freight & Salvage
Date: 2007-05-31 20:00:00
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...with The Saddle Cats featuring Bobby Black, Big Lou's Polka Casserole featuring David Phillips, and Joe Goldmark and the Seducers A steel guitar extravaganza like no other in recent Freight memory, In the Steel of the Night brings together three of the area's finest steel guitar players and the bands with which they regularly perform—Joe Goldmark & the Seducers, Big Lou's Polka Casserole featuring David Phillips, and The Saddle Cats featuring Bobby Black. Legendary steel player Bobby Black, backed by the Saddle Cats, featuring famed fiddler Richard Chon, take songs from the golden era of Western swing and bring them into the new century with finesse, abandon, and exuberant spirits. Steel Guitar Hall-of-Famer Bobby Black's talent for successfully blending country, pop, and rock has led him to a long career that included gigs with Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen, Asleep at the Wheel, and the New Riders Of the Purple Sage. Big Lou the Accordion Princess, known for stints with Polkacide and Those Darn Accordions, continues to shake up the polka world with Polka Casserole's unique blend of accordion, horns, and steel guitar. Steel player David Phillips, a Georgia native, is equally at home playing polkas or standard weepy country western tunes, not to mention bringing his unique sound to back artists such as Tom Waits, Frank Black, and John Wesley Harding. After stints with Dallas Wayne, Jim Lauderdale, David Byrne, Peter Rowan, and many others, Joe Goldmark continues his tradition of bringing the pedal steel guitar into high-energy reinterpretations of rock and soul music with his hot band, the Seducers, spotlighting numbers from his 10th CD, Seducing the 60s.
The Websters
Where: Freight & Salvage
Date: 2007-08-12 20:00:00
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The wondrous Webster sisters, Chris and Cassie (lead singer with Mumbo Gumbo and classically trained vocalist, respectively) reinvent traditional songs from the Appalachian mountains and gems from the great American songbook. In combination, the sisters' voices blend in beautiful tight knit harmonies. Bay Area banjo player Bill Evans steps into the spotlight as bandleader with his own band, the Bill Evans String Summit, a new six-piece band featuring some of the hottest new acoustic musicians on the West Coast.
Memorial for Del-Rickie Carter
Where: Ashkenaz
Date: 2007-08-26 21:00:00
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The evening features a jam session and memorial in honor of Del-Rickie Carter, guitarist from Mystic Tribe and former member of Strictly Roots.
Lost Coast
Where: Freight & Salvage
Date: 2007-08-17 20:00:00
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Hailing from the San Francisco Bay Area, Lost Coast is a youthful, yet remarkable band that is electrifying California bluegrass and beyond. The band combines precise, dynamic arrangements of fierce bluegrass instrumentals with powerful vocal harmonies, captivating audiences at every performance.
The Future of Search
Where: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Date: 2007-05-04 08:15:00
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CITRIS and NERSC are organizing an event entitled, "The Future of Search" at the University of California, Berkeley on May 4, 2007. The goal is to have an interaction between UC Berkeley researchers and industry leaders in the search field; to help set an academic research agenda that is complementary to the needs of industry, as well as to discuss potential educational goals for students. This event will examine the path towards the next generation of Search. This requires new technology for its development, engineering design and visualization. As the technological expertise for each component becomes increasingly complex, there is a need to better integrate them into a global model. The ultimate goal is to understand how we can fully mechanize search engines with cognitive and natural language capabilities. This event will endeavor to construct an overview of what is to come, to elucidate and formulate the main open questions in this grand quest and to highlight promising research directions.
The Fifth International Symposium on Digital Earth - ISDE5
Where: Wheeler Hall, University of California, Berkeley
Date: 2007-06-05 00:00:00
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On June 5th, on the beautiful and sunny campus of the University of California at Berkeley, the 5th International Symposium on Digital Earth (ISDE5) will begin an unparalleled exploration and exposition into the future of Digital Earth. The five day gathering will feature world-class representatives from industry, academia, government, and NGOs who have come from around the globe to highlight a central theme regarding shared interest in the concept of a digital Earth. Digital Earth is a visionary concept for "spaceship Earth" sparked by R. Buckminster Fuller, grokked by the Apollo astronauts returning from their moon missions, and popularized by Vice President Al Gore.
The Websters
Where: Freight & Salvage
Date: 2007-08-12 20:00:00
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The wondrous Webster sisters, Chris and Cassie (lead singer with Mumbo Gumbo and classically trained vocalist, respectively) reinvent traditional songs from the Appalachian mountains and gems from the great American songbook. In combination, the sisters' voices blend in beautiful tight knit harmonies. Bay Area banjo player Bill Evans steps into the spotlight as bandleader with his own band, the Bill Evans String Summit, a new six-piece band featuring some of the hottest new acoustic musicians on the West Coast.
Christine Kane
Where: Freight & Salvage
Date: 2007-09-22 20:00:00
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Christine Kane is a singer-songwriter and a powerful performer whose voice is earthy and elegant, whose words are vulnerable and true and whose music is raw, rhythmic and real.
Rebecca Griffin, Jazz Vocalist
Where: Caffe Trieste (Berkeley)
Date: 2007-09-04 19:00:00
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Up-and-coming jazz vocalist Rebecca Griffin delights audiences with her warm, sultry sound and fresh interpretations of standards and lesser-known gems. Featuring Michael Coleman, piano and Nate Brenner, bass.
Mojacar Flamenco Jazz
Where: Freight & Salvage
Date: 2007-08-05 20:00:00
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Mojacar Flamenco is a dynamic group of flamenco artists led by guitarist Stephen Dick and dancer Katerina Tomas.
Lakay
Where: Ashkenaz
Date: 2007-09-02 17:00:00
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Lakay is eight-piece band that focuses on kompa, a social music of Haiti. The band incorporates reggae, calypso and zouk into its funky, original sound.
Alison Krauss and Union Station
Where: Greek Theatre
Date: 2007-06-30 20:00:00
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Along with her band, Union Station, featuring Jerry Douglas, Alison Krauss is among the premier bluegrass artists working today.
Alison Krauss and Union Station
Where: Greek Theatre
Date: 2007-06-30 20:00:00
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Along with her band, Union Station, featuring Jerry Douglas, Alison Krauss is among the premier bluegrass artists working today.
Berkeley Cybersalon: Rewriting Copyright with the Swedish Pi...
Where: The Hillside Club
Date: 2007-07-29 17:00:00
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All too often, today's copyright law fails to serve the public interest. In this discussion, Rick Falkvinge of the Swedish Pirate Party joins us to examine some new approaches to copyright, challenging some of the fundamental (and unexamined) assumptions about "intellectual property." We'll look at how both creativity and civil liberties are often stymied by the current system, and highlight some genuinely new proposals for change. - Rick Falkinge, Pirate Party, Sweden - Karl Fogel, QuestionCopyright.org - Brad Templeton, Electronic Frontier Foundation - Tony Falzone, Fair Use Project, Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School - Mary Hodder, Dabble - Moderator: Jeff Ubois, digital archivist $10 at the door gets you pizza, drinks, and food for thought (and action).
Abbas Kiarostami: Image Maker
Where: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Date: 2007-07-29 11:00:00
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Abbas Kiarostami is world renowned for his award-winning films, but he is also a poet, photographer, painter, illustrator and graphic designer. This exhibition features photographs of Abbas Kiarostami. In each photograph, Kiarostami sets out to distill an image to its barest essence.
Great Girls Blouse, Nutarah, Plastic Fantastic Lover
Where: The Starry Plough Pub
Date: 2008-06-13 20:00:00
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GREAT GIRLS BLOUSE http://www.myspace.com/greatgirlsblousemusic NUTARAH http://www.myspace.com/nutarah PLASTIC FANTASTIC LOVER
Dee Dee Myers: Why Women Should Rule the World
Where: Cody's Bookstore
Date: 2008-03-06 19:00:00
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When Bill Clinton was elected president in 1993, Dee Dee Myers, at the age of 31, was the only woman in the history of the country appointed to the position of Press Secretary. This book explores the trials women have boldly faced throughout history.
Alan Rinzler's Writing Workshop
Where: Cody's Bookstore
Date: 2008-03-09 15:00:00
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Rinzler's annual workshops is for aspiring writers.
Ethan Rarick: Desperate Passage
Where: Cody's Bookstore
Date: 2008-03-11 19:00:00
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Rarick scythes away the myths of one of the nation's better-known sagas and offers up this horrific but ennobling tale in all its freshly researched detail.
The Battlefield Band
Where: Freight & Salvage
Date: 2008-03-05 20:00:00
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This popular Scottish folk band will utilize the sounds of bagpipes, fiddles, synthesizers and vocals to produce its unique tunes.
The Doors Legacy Band
Where: Starry Plough Irish Music & Dancing! Every Monday!
Date: 2008-07-10 21:00:00
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Crisis of the California Commons Conference
Where: Berkeley City College
Date: 2007-04-27 17:00:00
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Presented by the California Studies Association; The Commons Group; California Studies Center, U.C. Berkeley; Heyday Books The rich and bountiful commons that Californians once enjoyed as a gift of nature and fruit of public efforts are under assault today. Our resources are degraded, our services privatized and our public spaces increasingly pre-empted. But the state’s commons-wealth are not mere amenities for our private lives or raw materials for the economy. They are collective goods, shared resources and collective achievements that underpin our and future generations’ well-being, our civic life and our possibility for a democratic life together. What exactly are commons? How do they work? How can we protect them? Join scholars, activists, scientists and writers from around the state to examine the crises of California’s commons, recover their history and imagine their possible futures. Conference Schedule April 27, Friday night, 7:00-9:00 Welcome, Jeff Lustig, Chair, Conference Organizing Committee Keynote: Peter Linebaugh, Univ. of Toledo, The Magna Carta Manifesto, U. C. Press, 2007: "The Commons: From Magna Carta to May Day" Welcome Reception April 28, Saturday 8:30-10:00 a.m. 1) California Water: Public Resource or Private Commodity? Chair: Richard Orsi, CSU-East Bay; author, The Octopus Reconsidered Bill Kier, William Kier Associates Stacey Li, National Marine Fisheries Service Suzanne Michel, Prof of Geography, Cuyamaca College Adam Scow, Food and Water Watch Tim Stroshane, editor Spillway newsletter 2) Cutbacks! The Evisceration of the Public Service Commons Chair: Lauren Coodley, author, California: a Multicultural Documentary History Anatole Anton, S.F. State University; Not for Sale: In Defense of Public Goods Ken Jacobs, Labor Center UCB, author of The Hidden Costs of Wal-Mart Jobs Fred Glass, California Federation of Teachers Melissa Riley, San Francisco Public Library April 28, 10:30-12:00 3) Struggles for the Resource Commons: From Mono Lake to the Redwood Forest Chair: Cal Winslow, Director, Mendocino Institute Will Russell, Environmental Studies, San Jose State University Dick Walker, Geography, UCB; The Country in the City; The Conquest of Bread Cal Winslow, Director, Mendocino Institute Angus Wright, Environmental Studies, CSU-Sacramento, The Death of Ramon Gonzalez: The Modern Agricultural Dilemma. 4) The Cooperative Legacy: Co-ops in the East Bay Chair: Chuck Wollenberg, Berkeley City College; author Golden Gate Metropolis; and Ethnic Conflict in California History John Curl, author History of Collectivity in the Bay Area Cathy Goldsmith, Cheeseboard Cooperative Bernard Marszalek, Inkworks Adam Wight, Worker at two new Berkeley Food Co-ops April 28, 11:45-12:30 p.m. Box Lunch in atrium Film: The New Los Angeles from series American and the California Dream by Lynn Goldfarb et al. April 28, 12:30-1:30 Luncheon Address: “The New Deal Legacy in California,” Gray Brechin, author Imperial San Francisco; and Farewell Promised Land Introduction by Gerald Haslam, author The Great Central Valley: California Heartland; Okies; Voices of Place. April 28, 1:45-3:15 p.m. 5) Organizing the Commons: Creating Community Chair: Cynthia Kaufman, DeAnza College, Ideas for Action and Radical Change Gilda Gonzalez, Unity Council, Fruitvale District, Oakland David Kakishiba, East Bay Asian Youth Center Binh Nguyen, Asian Pacific Environmental Network David Roach, Mo’ Better Foods, West Oakland Eric Vega, Freedom Bound Center, Sol Art Collective, Sacramento 6) Enclosing the Knowledge Commons: Capture of the Public University Chair: Janet Fireman, Loyola-Marymount; and Ed., California History Ignacio Chapela, Environmental Science, Policy, Management, UC Berkeley Linda Collins, former Pres., Community Colleges Statewide Faculty Senate; Exec. Dir., Career Ladders Project Kamal Kapadia, Energy and Resources Group, U.C. Berkeley Jeff Lustig, CSU Sacramento; author, Corporate Liberalism Michael Perelman, CSU Chico; Intellectual Property Rights and Corp orate Confiscation of Creativity 7) Voice of the Commons: Poetry and Literature of a Shared World Chair: Janferie Stone, Native American Studies, U.C. Davis Gerald Haslam, Sonoma State University, author The Great Central Valley: California Heartland, Okies, That Constant Coyote Vijaya R. Nagarajan, NEH Chair of Humanities, USF; Institute of Natural and Cultural Resources Julia Stein, Santa Monica College, Under the Ladder to Heaven; Walker Woman. April 28, 3:30-5:00 8) Plenary: The Destiny of The Commons Chair: Jeff Lustig, C.S.U. Sacramento; Founding Chair, California Studies Assoc. Iain Boal, author, The Long Theft: Episodes in the History of Enclosure Richard Prelinger, Prelinger Assocs.; founder of Prelinger Film Archive Ruth Rosen, historian, journalist, Longview Institute; author, The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America Jonathon Rowe, Tomales Bay Institute; West Marin Commons Assoc. April 28, 5:10-5:45 California Studies Association Business Meeting Nomination of association officers. April 28, evening The Musical Commons Anna’s Jazz Island, 2120 Allston Way (downtown Berkeley) Sam Rudin, Boogie, Blues and Jazz,, 8:00 Country Joe McDonald, “A Tribute to Woody Guthrie,” 9:00 April 29, Sunday 9:00-10:30 a.m. 9) The Right to the City: Public Space as Commons Chair: Carmen Rojas, City and Regional Planning, U.C. Berkeley Chris Carlsson, activist & author of San Francisco: The Political Edge Christopher Ratcliff, architect and designer of Berkeley City College Amy Trachtenberg, visual artist- public art, San Francisco 10) The Broadcast Commons: From Pacifica to Pirate Radio Chair: Iain Boal, author, The Long Theft; Chair, The Commons Group Maria Gilardin, TUC Radio Anyi-Malik Howell, Youth Radio Sasha Lilly, Interim General Manager, KPFA Marian Smith, General Manager, KFOK, Georgetown, CA (invited) April 29, 10:45-12:15 11) Seeds of the Future: Local Food Supply Chair: Chris Shein, Landscape Horticulture, Merritt College; Wildheart Gardens Christine Churdboonmaung, East Bay Asian Youth Center Shereen d'Souza, Sustaining Ourselves Locally Jason Harvey, Exec. Dir., Oakland Food Connection Aaron Shapiro, LA Farmers’ Market Organizer Chris Shein, Landscape Horticulture, Merritt College; Wildheart Gardens 12) The Information Commons: Rebirth or Siren Song? Chair: Peter Wiley, author, The National Trust Guide to San Francisco Bodo Balazs, Visiting Scholar, Stanford James Jacobs, International Document Librarian, Stanford University Annalee Newitz, Bay Guardian, column Techsploitation Megan Shaw, Prelinger library Shinjoung Yeo, Coordinator, Reference & Outreach Services, Stanford Univ. Co-Sponsor NEH Chair in the Humanities, University of San Francisco Affiliates The Institute of Natural and Cultural Resources, The Mendocino Institute, San Francisco State University Environmental Studies Center, West Marin Commons Group
CONVERSATIONS ON MUSEUMS Ethnically-specific Museums in the ...
Where: Judah L. Magnes Museum
Date: 2007-08-05 14:00:00
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Curators and directors from the Asian Art Museum, the Contemporary Jewish Museum, the Magnes, the Museum of the African Diaspora, the Mexican Museum, and the African American Museum and Library in Oakland will be invited to address questions such as: How do museums with cultural collections develop exhibitions and programs of universal significance? What is the appropriate balance between art and history when engaging wider audiences? How does the concept of sacred/secular space inform new building projects? $12 non-members; $10 members.
Culann's Hounds
Where: Ashkenaz
Date: 2007-11-29 21:00:00
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The Culann's Hounds features Scott Marshall, Steve Gardner, Mike Kelleher and Alan Kaufman.
Robert Hass - Time and Materials: Poems 1997 - 2005
Where: Cody's Bookstore
Date: 2007-11-19 19:00:00
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In 'Time and Materials' Hass has not only achieved conveying the whole man in each of his poems, but he has also written a powerful and fascinating book of poetry, remaining a poet of intimacy and intellect, sensuality and morality.
Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands
Where: Freight & Salvage
Date: 2007-11-24 20:00:00
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Native Berkeleyite Laurie's songwriting, fiddling and crystal-clear singing have brought her national recognition, a Grammy and two International Bluegrass Music Association Awards for Female Vocalist of the Year. Through her many band and solo outings, Laurie has become a key figure in bluegrass, traditional and folk music circles. The band also features Tom Rozum, Todd Phillips, Craig Smith and Scott Huffman.
Mushroom with Eddie Gale. Willow Willow. Emily Jane White
Where: Starry Plough
Date: 2007-12-13 21:30:00
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One night only in Berkeley California. The amazing band Mushroom will perform w/ legendary jazz trumpet man Eddie Gale. Emily Jane White (Rolling Stone 2007 who's hot issue) and Willow Willow (yes! the wonderful wonderful Willow Willow!) all on this bill. do not miss this show. tell a friend. bring a friend. thanx for listening.
Aftermath of Chechen War: A Chechen Perspective
Where: UC Berkeley Campus, 83 Dwinelle Hall
Date: 2007-11-13 17:00:00
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Gistam Sakaeva has been an aid worker since the start of the first war in 1994, when she was recruited by Doctors Without Borders from a refugee camp. In addition to Doctors Without Borders, she has worked for Handicap International, Care Canada and the OSCE. She is currently a project officer for the Chechen NGO "Reliance", where she runs income-generating programs for vulnerable women and those with disabled family members. Gistam's main interests are gender-based violence and the marginalization of mine victims and otherwise disabled children and adults in Chechnya. In her experience, the war and its side-effects of violence, power disparity and a harsher social climate have had a particularly detrimental effect on already marginalized groups. For example, in today's Chechnya, children with mine injuries as well as those with congenital birth defects are de facto excluded from all schooling, cannot get the care and rehabilitation they need and are often simply hidden away at home. Free.
Music Night in Africa
Where: Ashkenaz
Date: 2007-12-01 21:00:00
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This concert features performances by West African Highlife Band, Baba Ken, Afro-Groove Connexion, Nigerian Brothers and much more.
Ann Vileisis: Kitchen Literacy
Where: Cody's Bookstore
Date: 2007-11-14 19:00:00
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The consequences of the distance between farm and table, both historically and in the current age of the factory farm, is the subject of historian Ann Vileisis's provocative book, 'Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes From and Why We Need to Get It Back.'
The Punchline by Alicia Dattner
Where: JCC East Bay
Date: 2007-12-08 20:00:00
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It's funny, what stops us. This brand new one-woman-show takes a highly irreverent look at what stops people (ok, what stops me) from pursuing their dreams (specifically, standup comedy) and then dives inside the wild landscape of the mind (again, mine) and finally asks the big questions: What's life all about? Why am I here? Where are you hiding the chocolate? Take a journey with me into the quirky world of standup comedians, hungry (funny) monsters that live in the belly, grandmothers, and wacky gurus who all think they know the answers. And come through the other side??
California Derby / Fleece Blanket Giveaway
Where: Golden Gate Fields
Date: 2008-01-27 12:00:00
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Come see the best three year old horses Northern California has to offer in the $150,000 California Derby. Get a free California Derby Commemorative Fleece Blanket with admission to Golden Gate Fields.
Financing Cohousing: Live viewing of national webinar plus d...
Where: Berkeley Coworking
Date: 2007-12-03 16:30:00
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Come explore with us how to make your commmunity dreams into a reality. Uncover the secrets of how cohousing has become the fastest-growing form of intentional community, by leveraging the system. Learn what banks and potential investors will need to see from you to take you seriously and extend your reach to create a place where you know your neighbors and can support each other for simpler, more sustainable, higher-quality life. Learn how to get banks, investors, and others to help fund your vision of a multi-unit collaborative community / intentional neighborhood, intergenerational or for retirement. Learn how to carefully select the right partners who "get it" about what you're doing... and how to keep them connected and informed throughout the process so their regulators and bosses won't pull the plug along the way. Author/Developer/Architect Kathryn McCamant of California's leading cohousing developer, Cohousing Partners and cohousing co-creators around the country will be joining in by conference call and presenting / answering our Q's. This is a national webinar put on by the Cohousing Association of the United States. Please arrive promptly -- we'll get to know each other and discuss our own visions for community before the call starts right at 5. The presentation will last an hour and be followed by half an hour of Q&A. You could stay home, all alone and join the national webinar for $85... or save money and join us in a lovely setting surrounded by whiteboards so we can share our ideas before and during the call, with the presentation projected. Refreshments provided (and possibly home-brewed Ginger Ale while supplies last). No prior experience required... this workshop can be helpful even if you are just at the "idea" stage of creating community or a member of a forming group, or living in community and considering investment in communities based on your experience. We will help you put the information in context and make sure you walk away with a checklist of necessary next steps.
Adrian Legg
Where: Freight & Salvage
Date: 2008-01-06 20:00:00
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Adrian Legg is an innovative folk guitarist who has a reputation for being one of the funniest instrumentalists around. His deadpan humor and hilarious stories have been as much of a concert draw as his music.
Report From Chiapas and the Indigenous Encuentro
Where: La Pena Cultural Center
Date: 2007-12-05 19:30:00
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Gary Lapow
Where: La Pena Cultural Center
Date: 2007-12-08 10:30:00
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Gary Lapow is the East Bay's premiere kid's musician. Come sing-along, move-along and laugh-along with this popular veteran children's singer.
Argonautika
Where: Berkeley Repertory Theater
Date: 2007-11-30 00:00:00
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'Argonautika' is an ancient Greek fable about a young man who encounters sea monsters and water nymphs in his voyage across a forbidden ocean to rescue the princess he loves.
The Savoy Family Band
Where: Ashkenaz
Date: 2007-12-02 20:30:00
Type:
This band plays a special brand of honed-down, hard-core Cajun music featuring knock-your-socks off rhythms that are straight from the prairies of Southwestern Louisiana.
Chris Elliott
Where: Berkeley Community Theater
Date: 2008-03-09 14:30:00
Type:
Ever since his organ debut at age 15, Chris Elliott has been captivating organ audiences across America, from great movie palaces to awesome cathedrals.
Jim Post: Mark Twain and the Laughing River
Where: Freight & Salvage
Date: 2008-02-02 20:00:00
Type:
The Smithsonian calls Jim Post's "depiction of Mark Twain is nothing less than brilliant, and each sentence and song is a gem ...nothing but kudos from our audience members of all ages...This is a show that should be on Broadway." 'Mark Twain and the Laughing River' is a one man tour de force---part musical, part drama and thoroughly entertaining
Carolina Chocolate Drops
Where: Freight & Salvage
Date: 2008-02-07 20:00:00
Type:
This African-American string band, featuring Ed Butler (Red Clay Ramblers), Rhiannon Giddens, Dom Flemons and Justin Robinson plays the fiddle tunes of the Carolinas' piedmont, striving to carry on the traditional music of black and white communities.
Chuck Brodsky
Where: Freight & Salvage
Date: 2008-01-30 20:00:00
Type:
As a songwriter, Chuck Brodsky makes the little things in life shine with humor and humanity. He's a consummate storyteller with a deep love of people, with their dreams, heartaches and foibles. With insight, grace and a healthy does of black humor, Brodsky's music is at once entertaining and endearing.
Carolina Chocolate Drops
Where: Freight & Salvage
Date: 2008-02-07 20:00:00
Type:
This African-American string band, featuring Ed Butler (Red Clay Ramblers), Rhiannon Giddens, Dom Flemons and Justin Robinson plays the fiddle tunes of the Carolinas' piedmont, striving to carry on the traditional music of black and white communities.
Solo Bach Night
Where: Freight & Salvage
Date: 2008-02-12 20:00:00
Type:
This evening devoted to music features performances by Lara St. John, Sam Bass, Dave Grossman, Lynda Arnold, Kelly Back and Fred Weed.
Active Arts Theatre for Young Audiences Presents: Little Wom...
Where: Julia Morgan Center for the Arts
Date: 2008-02-03 02:00:00
Type:
Adapted for the stage by Marisha Chamberlain This play is suitable for children ages 6 and up Saturdays and Sundays: January 19, 20, 26, 27; February 2, 3, 2008 All shows @ 2pm Julia Morgan Center for the Arts (2640 College Avenue, Berkeley) TICKETS: $18/adults; $14/children (discounts available through http://www.activeartstheatre.org) BOX OFFICE: (925) 798-1300 Based on Louis May Alcotts beloved novel about family life and love, Little Women follows the adventures of sisters Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy as they grow up during the Civil War. Father is off with the Union army, and money is tight, but the girls learn to be resourceful, knowing they can never truly be poor as long as they have each other. Each sisters struggle leads to new adventures and revelations. Pretty Meg, the oldest, wonders if she will ever find love. Tomboy Jo struggles to balance her need for independence with her duty to her family. Shy Beth doesnt realize how much her musical gifts mean to others and little Amy learns that she must think less about herself and more about her family. Their neighbors wealthy Mr. Laurence and his high-spirited grandson, Laurie admire the sisters kindness, talent and pluck, and step in to help when events take a turn for the worse. Active Arts theatrical sparkling production of Little Women is the perfect way to introduce children of all ages to this timeless masterpiece. ABOUT THE COMPANY: Active Arts Theatre for Young Audiences is a professional, non-profit theater company founded by veteran actors from the Bay Area's vibrant theater scene, along with local visual artists and educators. All of the company's repertory is performed by a cast of professional adult actors, instead of the standard mix of young performers and adults. Since the companys debut in 2004, Active Arts has performed for more than 8,000 children and families. Active Arts production of Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business broke box office records in 2005 and the companys subsequent productions included memorable interpretations of "Alexander that the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day" based on the short story by Judith Viorst; Dragonwings by Laurence Yep; and "Manzi: The Adventures of Young Cesar Chavez" by Jose Cruz Gonzalez. Closing out the 2007-08 season, Active Arts will premiere The Emperors New Clothes: A Musical by Ahrens and Flaherty April 12 27, 2008. This charming musical is from the team that created Ragtime and Seussical. The Emperors New Clothes re-tells the age-old parable from the viewpoint of a 14-year-old boy. This play is suitable for children ages 4 and up. www.activeartstheatre.orgEvent submitted by Eventful.com on behalf of NEQA.
Gerry Tenny
Where: La Pena Cultural Center
Date: 2008-01-12 10:30:00
Type:
Gerry Tenny plays a wonderful mix of original and traditional music.
Ryan Adams
Where: University of California, Berkeley Zellerbach Hall
Date: 2008-01-28 20:00:00
Type:
Singer/songwriter Ryan Adams released his solo debut album, 'Heartbreaker,' in 2000. His songs pick up influences from country, pop and rock, and his music has a brooding and earthy quality to it.
Joshua Redman
Where: University of California, Berkeley Zellerbach Hall
Date: 2008-02-28 20:00:00
Type:
Jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman has enjoyed a stellar rise to success since taking first place in the 1991 Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Competition. His albums include 'Timeless Tales (For Changing Times)' and 'Passage of Time.'
Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys
Where: Freight & Salvage
Date: 2008-01-09 20:00:00
Type:
The Klezmer Mountain Boys bring together an all-star line-up of today's top musicians from both klezmer and bluegrass. Interweaving these two distinct styles of music creates a tapestry of unending surprises.
Adam Balbo, Fancy Dan Band, Chris Stroffolino
Where: Blake's
Date: 2008-02-16 20:00:00
Type:
ADAM BALBO Folk/Electroacoustic/Lyrical http://www.myspace.com/adambalbo NOBODY BEATS Indie/Pop/Ghettotech http://www.myspace.com/nobodybeatsoakland FANCY DAN BAND Country/Rockabilly http://www.myspace.com/fancydanband CHRIS STROFFOLINO Other/Other/Pop http://www.myspace.com/chrisstroffolino Admission: $7-$8
Gerry Tenny
Where: La Pena Cultural Center
Date: 2008-01-12 10:30:00
Type:
Gerry Tenny plays a wonderful mix of original and traditional music.
Foxy Shazam
Where: Blake's
Date: 2008-02-13 21:30:00
Type:
From Cincinnati, Ohio, the band plays soul/rock/pop music and features Loren Daniel Turner (guitar), Eric Sean Nally (vocals), Schuyler Vaughn White (piano/keyboard), Daisy (bass guitar) and Joseph Allen Halberstadt (drums).
Laurie R King: Touchstone
Where: Cody's Bookstore
Date: 2008-01-15 19:00:00
Type:
Bestselling author, Laurie R. King, introduces 'Touchstone.'
Fundraiser for Berkeley Liberation Radio and Carol Denney
Where: La Pena Cultural Center
Date: 2008-02-01 19:00:00
Type:
This concert features performances by Andrea Prichett and Friends of Carol Denney, Funky Nixons, Phoenix and After Buffalo M.C. Che-X.
Anais Mitchell
Where: Freight & Salvage
Date: 2008-01-16 20:00:00
Type:
Anais Mitchell is a young, up-and-coming folk singer/songwriter.
Critical Analysis of Law & Economics
Where: Boalt Hall UC Berkeley School of Law
Date: 2008-01-17 12:45:00
Type:
122 Boalt
Sudhir Venkatesh: Gang Leader for A Day
Where: Cody's Bookstore
Date: 2008-01-24 19:00:00
Type:
Subtitled 'A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets,' Venkatesh's book describes how he managed to gain entree into the gang, what he learned and how his method revolutionized the academic establishment.
Community Song Circle
Where: Freight & Salvage
Date: 2008-01-17 20:00:00
Type:
Hosted by Kim Hermanson, this gathering will be open to everyone who wants to raise his or her voice in song, from closet singers who want to work on their harmonies to singer-songwriters who would like to perform original material.
Speak the Music: Beatboxing
Where: La Pena Cultural Center
Date: 2008-02-28 20:00:00
Type:
This evening features some of the Bay Area's most prolific and best beatboxers, surprise musical guests, emcees, and more.
Mythbusters Live
Where: University of California, Berkeley Zellerbach Hall
Date: 2008-01-19 19:30:00
Type:
Strong Intention
Where: 924 Gilman
Date: 2008-04-18 20:00:00
Type:
Strong Intention is a hardcore band which was formed in 1993. The band went into a hiatus in 1995 and then re-formed the following year around a new core lineup with the new members bringing in new, diverse range of ideas and influences to the band.
The Bridge
Where: Ashkenaz
Date: 2008-02-07 20:30:00
Type:
This band features Cris Jacobs(guitar/lead vocals), Kenny Liner( mandolin & beatbox), Dave Markowitz(bass), Patrick Rainey(saxophone) and Mike Gambone(drums). Don't Look Back is an acoustic string quintet.
UC Business Plan Happy Hour Mixer
Where: Bank of America Forum, Haas School of Business
Date: 2008-01-23 17:00:00
Type:
Charles Halpern: Making Waves and Riding the Currents
Where: Cody's Bookstore
Date: 2008-01-22 19:00:00
Type:
Mona Sutphen and Nina Hachigian: the Next American Century
Where: Cody's Bookstore
Date: 2008-01-23 19:00:00
Type:
Mona Sutphen and Nina Hachigian introduce 'The Next American Century: How the U.S. Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise.'
Henry Jenkins: Combating the Participation Gap: Why New Medi...
Where: Berkeley iSchool Room 202
Date: 2008-02-06 16:00:00
Type:
According to recent studies by the Pew Center on the Internet And American Life, more than half of American teens online have produced media content and about a third have circulated media that they have produced beyond their immediate friends and family. These statistics reflect the growing importance of participatory culture in the everyday lives of American young people. Work across a range of disciplines suggest that these emerging forms of participatory culture are important sites for informal learning and may be the crucible out of which new conceptions of civic engagement are emerging. Drawing on insights from a recent white paper produced for the MacArthur Foundation, this talk will discuss the need to develop new forms of media literacy pedagogy which reflects this context of a participatory culture, materials which both respond to the ethical challenges confronted by those teens who are already producing and circulating their own media as well as the challenges confronting those youth who are excluded from participation in these on-line worlds as a consequence of lack of access to technologies, skills, competencies, and cultural experiences taken for granted by their contemporaries. These issues can not be understood through a simple opposition between digital natives and digital immigrants, but rather require us to dig deeper into the diverse range of experiences young people have online and the range of different interactions between adults and teens in these new participatory culture. In the course of the presentation, I will be sharing a range of curricular materials and activities being developed by MIT's Project nml to support the teaching of these new social skills and cultural competencies.
Andrew Keen and Paul Duguid: Is the Web a Threat to Our Cult...
Where: Berkeley iSchool Room 202
Date: 2008-03-19 16:00:00
Type:
When Times magazine named “YOU” as their 2006 Person of the Year, it highlighted what has been deemed the democratization of the media. The term “Web 2.0” was coined to describe this transformation on the internet, where individual volunteers, not institutions, control its content. But many people share doubts about the hype around Web 2.0 and have different ideas about what's significant, what's trivial, and what's irrelevant. Protagonists, such as Andrew Keen, believe that it is not only significant, but is significant enough to threaten “our economy, our culture, and our values.” Please join us as UC Berkeley Adjunct Professor Paul Duguid joins Andrew Keen in a debate about the whether Web 2.0 is truly a threat to our culture.
Sudhir Venkatesh: Gang Leader for A Day
Where: Cody's Bookstore
Date: 2008-01-24 19:00:00
Type:
Subtitled 'A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets,' Venkatesh's book describes how he managed to gain entree into the gang, what he learned and how his method revolutionized the academic establishment.
Richard Smith, Guitarist
Where: Freight & Salvage
Date: 2008-02-13 20:00:00
Type:
Richard Smith is well known fingerstyle guitarist.
Any Old Time String Band
Where: Freight & Salvage
Date: 2008-01-26 20:00:00
Type:
Any Old Time String Band features reunion of popular old time music band.
Cara
Where: Freight & Salvage
Date: 2008-03-12 20:00:00
Type:
Cara plays Irish and Scottish roots with a new and unique sound.
Earthcapades
Where: La Pena Cultural Center
Date: 2008-01-26 10:30:00
Type:
EarthCapades' unique and memorable programs offer a hilarious blend of environmental education and entertainment. Circus arts, storytelling, music and comedy are skillfully woven with learning to enthrall audiences of all ages.
Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viegas
Where: Wozniak Lounge (Soda Hall)
Date: 2008-01-30 15:00:00
Type:
Wednesday Open Mic with host GG Tanaka (10PM)
Where: Beckett's Irish Pub
Date: 2008-02-06 20:00:00
Type:
OPEN MIC NIGHT with host GG Tanaka at Beckett's Irish Pub in Berkeley! 10PM to 1AM 2 songs per performer Contact GG Tanaka for more information!
Wednesday Open Mic with host GG Tanaka (10PM)
Where: Beckett's Irish Pub
Date: 2008-02-20 20:00:00
Type:
OPEN MIC NIGHT with host GG Tanaka at Beckett's Irish Pub in Berkeley! 10PM to 1AM 2 songs per performer Contact GG Tanaka for more information!
Lashonda Barnett: I Got Thunder
Where: Cody's Bookstore
Date: 2008-01-31 19:00:00
Type:
'I Got Thunder' covers a wide variety of genres, providing a rare glimpse of the most prominent women performing singers and songwriters and their remarkable contributions.
Jim Post: Mark Twain and the Laughing River
Where: Freight & Salvage
Date: 2008-02-02 20:00:00
Type:
The Smithsonian calls Jim Post's "depiction of Mark Twain is nothing less than brilliant, and each sentence and song is a gem ...nothing but kudos from our audience members of all ages...This is a show that should be on Broadway." 'Mark Twain and the Laughing River' is a one man tour de force---part musical, part drama and thoroughly entertaining
Richard Goode, Pianist
Where: University of California, Berkeley Zellerbach Hall
Date: 2008-02-03 15:00:00
Type:
Revered not only for his exceptional technical artistry, but also for the sheer vitality he brings to every performance, Goode is considered one of the deepest thinkers at the keyboard, an artist who tempts listeners to new depths of understanding of some of the finest compositions written for the piano.
“Monster in the Dark" - foolsFURY's 10th Anniversary Season
Where: Ashby Stage
Date: 2008-02-07 20:00:00
Type:
foolsFURY Theater premieres “Monster in the Dark” Written by Doug Dorst; Directed by Ben Yalom Thursdays – Saturdays, Feb. 7 – 9 and 14 – 16 @ 8pm Sundays, Feb. 3, 10, 17 @ 5pm Ashby Stage 1901 Ashby Ave, Berkeley TICKETS: $15 - $30 general admission, sliding scale $12 students/seniors and TBA members Thursdays are Pay-what-you-can BOX OFFICE: (800) 838-3006 and brownpapertickets.com INFORMATION: http://www.foolsfury.org/ foolsFURY Theater Company launches their 10th Anniversary season following a stellar 2007 season distinguished with critical and popular recognition. foolsFURY was awarded the prestigious 2007 San Francisco Bay Guardian GOLDIE Award for 'Best Discovery in Theater'. The company's tour to New York's P.S. 122 was met with critical acclaim. And foolsFURY's sensational "The Turn of the Screw" was recognized as "the Best of the SF Fringe." "Monster in the Dark" tells the horrifying and darkly humorous tale about an end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it flood that threatens a peculiar and bizarrely familiar society. It is a world ruled by 'the Structure,' a shadowy government that monitors its citizens from beneath black umbrellas and within hidden towers. It is a place where business literally consumes you, Faith and Anxiety are preached daily on street corners, and people jump from the sky with the same frequency as rain. Life and society are threatened by a watery natural disaster, and the people of "Monster in the Dark" are challenged to redefine themselves and others; who can be trusted, who is necessary, and what is the greatest resource needed to survive. "Monster in the Dark" is the culmination of a two-year theatrical exploration in foolsFURY's style of "sheer kinetic energy and rigorous physical vocabulary" (SF Bay Guardian). Created by foolsFURY company members under the direction of Ben Yalom and in collaboration with novelist/playwright Doug Dorst, this production, like the best of foolsFURY’s work, is both hilarious and deeply disturbing.
Riffat Sultana and Party
Where: Ashkenaz
Date: 2008-02-24 20:00:00
Type:
Riffat Sultana and Party plays traditional and contemporary Pakistani folk music.
Greg Lynn, "Giant Robot Architecture"
Where: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Date: 2008-02-04 19:30:00
Type:
The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium of the Berkeley Center for New Media announces: Giant Robot Architecture Greg Lynn, UCLA & Angewandte, Vienna Monday, Feb 4, 7:30-9:00pm ** Note Special Location: Berkeley Art Museum Theater ** Enter on Dwight Ave: http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/visit/visitor ATC Lectures are free and open to the public ------------------------------------------------------ Robots. In my office, my staff keeps asking for more new machines, and every time I get a new machine, I fire two or three people. By extrapolation, in the next few years I will be sitting in an office by myself with a bunch of robots. We have is a very large CNC (computer numerically controlled) cutting machine, a laser cutter, a 3d printer, and soon we will have a robotic articulated arm. All of these things let us do studies of models, which are very important to architects, but what they also let us do is learn machine language. We spend more and more time talking to machines; speaking their language. It is very easy for us to go to any country that has an automobile industry or an aircraft industry and give their machines instructions and do things with these large machines at an architectural scale that is very perfunctory and affordable. The spread of machine language and programming is more significant than the Anglicization of the world. Learning to talk to robots is very important to my field of design. ------------------------------------------------------ Greg Lynn is a leading pioneer at the intersection of computing, design, and architecture. His architectural designs have been exhibited in both architecture and art museums including the 2000 Venice Biennale of Architecture where he represented the United States in the American Pavilion. His work is in the permanent collections of CCA, SFMoMA, and MoMA and has been exhibited at the Pompidou, Beyeler, Cooper Hewitt, MAK, MoCA, NAI, Carnegie, ICA and Secession museums among others. In addition to his architectural work, his Alessi "Supple" Mocha Cups and his Vitra "Ravioli" Chair are in production and have been inducted into the Museum of Modern Art's Permanent Collection. He received the American Academy of Arts & Letters Architecture Award in 2003. In 2002, he left his position as the Professor of Spatial Conception and Exploration at the ETHZ (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) and became an Ordentlicher University Professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. He is studio professor of Architecture at UCLA and the Davenport Visiting Professor at Yale University. Greg Lynn holds degrees in architecture and philosophy and received an Honorary Doctorate degree from the Academy of Fine Arts & Design in Bratislava. In 2001, Time Magazine named him one of 100 of the most innovative people in the world for the 21st century. In 2005, Forbes Magazine named him one of the ten most influential living architects. http://www.glform.com ------------------------------------------------------ ATC Primary Sponsors: Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM), Center for Information Technology in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), College of Engineering Interdisciplinary Studies Program (IDS), and the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost. Additional Sponsors: Intel Research, BAM/PFA, Townsend Center for the Humanities, and the Berkeley Consortium for the Arts. Ken Goldberg, ATC Director Greg Niemeyer, ATC Associate Director Irene Chien, ATC Graduate Associate Curated with ATC Advisory Board For updated information, please visit: http://atc.berkeley.edu or contact: goldberg@berkeley.edu or (510) 642-0635.
Duck Baker
Where: Freight & Salvage
Date: 2008-04-26 20:00:00
Type:
Duck Baker is American fingerstyle guitarist.
Science at the Theater - Free Community Lecture with Jerry T...
Where: Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Date: 2008-02-11 17:30:00
Type:
Berkeley Lab Friends of Science Presents SCIENCE at the THEATER Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Free Community Lecture Series at Berkeley Rep JERRY TUSKAN: Genomic Advances to Improve Biomass for Biofuels Free Event - no RSVP or Tickets Required! Jerry Tuskan has led the international effort to characterize and analyze the genome of the first tree ever sequenced — the poplar. He is among the world's authorities on the genetic basis of tree growth and development, with emphasis on biomass accumulations, carbon allocation and cell-wall chemistry. He is, today, among the world's authorities on the deployment of woody crops for improved biomass-to-biofuels strategies, with over 75 publications in the areas of genetic and genomics of perennial plants; including 20 exclusively related to biomass and bioenergy.
Joyce Hall Soul Food Luncheon
Where: Boalt Hall UC Berkeley School of Law
Date: 2008-02-05 12:30:00
Type:
DMEC meeting
Where: Haas School of Business (UC Berkeley)
Date: 2008-02-06 12:30:00
Type:
Location: C335 Meeting Purpose: club meeting to talk about the LA Trip, >play 2008, and general spring semester club activities
Ken Double, Organist
Where: Berkeley Community Theater
Date: 2008-05-04 14:30:00
Type:
Ken Double never fails to give a dazzling organ performace.
Andy Mason
Where: Freight & Salvage
Date: 2008-02-19 20:00:00
Type:
ANDY MASON Folk / Folk Rock / Country Feature performer at this weekly open mic.
Andy Mason
Where: Freight & Salvage
Date: 2008-02-19 20:00:00
Type:
ANDY MASON Folk / Folk Rock / Country Feature performer at this weekly open mic. Freight Open Mic Tuesday, February 19, 2008 perform in a welcoming listening environment Door 7:30 P.M., Music 8:00 P.M. | Admission: $4.50 in adv/$5.50 at door All performers are welcome to participate in this event that has produced some of our brightest performers, including: Shawn Colvin, Dana Carvey, Alvin Youngblood Hart, and Patrick Landeza. HERE'S HOW IT WORKS! One unique aspect of our Open Mic is that, unlike those held in noisy bars where people show up in spite of the fact that there's live music, you will be playing to a supportive group of friends and performers who are actually listening!!! Signups—on a first-come-first-served basis—begin when the door opens at 7:30. The show starts promptly at 8:00. Admission is $5.50, even if you are performing. EXCEPTION: Any performer showing up with a paying, non-performing member of the audience plays for free!!! Note: you must show up together to take advantage of this offer. Solo performers get to play one song, groups get to play two songs. Management reserves the right to occasionally award a performer with an extra song, for any reason management deems appropriate. Please be ready to perform when your turn comes up. Please limit your introduction to thirty seconds. We occasionally have special shows and friendly competitions that are open to REGULAR attendees of our Open Mic. BONUS: Anyone, performers and audience alike, staying until the end of the night is entitled to a FREE TICKET to an upcoming Freight show of their choice. Shows that are sold out or close to being sold out are excluded from this offer. Source: http://www.thefreight.org/2008/0802-february/info_080219.html
Betsy Stern
Where: La Pena Cultural Center
Date: 2008-04-19 10:30:00
Type:
Betsy Stern performs songs in Spanish, French and English.
Karla Bonoff
Where: Freight & Salvage
Date: 2008-04-11 20:00:00
Type:
Karla Bonoff is a singer/songwriter who has had her songs recorded by such artists as Linda Ronstadt and Bonnie Raitt.
Ethan Rarick: Desperate Passage
Where: Cody's Bookstore
Date: 2008-03-11 19:00:00
Type:
Rarick scythes away the myths of one of the nation's better-known sagas and offers up this horrific but ennobling tale in all its freshly researched detail.
Ethan Rarick: Desperate Passage
Where: Cody's Bookstore
Date: 2008-03-11 19:00:00
Type:
Rarick scythes away the myths of one of the nation's better-known sagas and offers up this horrific but ennobling tale in all its freshly researched detail.
"A Walk in the Clouds"- Museum Studies Student Exhibition
Where: John F. Kennedy University Arts & Consciousness Gallery
Date: 2008-03-20 17:00:00
Type:
The Museum Studies Exhibition Development class at John F. Kennedy University present, "A Walk in the Clouds" March 17-20, 2008 RECEPTION: Thursday, March 20th - 5:00-8:00 pm Gallery hours: Monday – Friday, 11 am – 6 pm
Arlo Guthrie
Where: University of California, Berkeley Zellerbach Hall
Date: 2008-04-10 20:00:00
Type:
Like his father Woody Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie has carved out a career as a folk singer and songwriter with a social conscience who leavens political messages with humor. Over the last four decades, Guthrie has toured the world, winning a wide following for both his musicianship and natural storytelling skills. Join Arlo Guthrie as he takes the stage with one of folk music's all-time great artists - himself. In 1961, a young Arlo took the stage for the first time...solo. Following his performance at Woodstock, he has rarely toured alone except for an occasional appearance.
Turlu
Where: Ashkenaz
Date: 2008-04-02 20:30:00
Type:
Turlu features singer Lily Storm, accordionist Dan Ziagos, violinist-vocalist Leslie Bonnett and percussionist Nuri Bal.
Bluegrass Session
Where: Starry Plough Irish Music & Dancing! Every Monday!
Date: 2008-04-24 19:45:00
Type:
Every fourth Thursday Bluegrass Session will be hosted by Jacob Gropman and the Mountain Boys. Each session will feature a Nationally touring Bluegrass group.
Wednesday Open Mic with host GG Tanaka (10PM)
Where: Beckett's Irish Pub
Date: 2008-04-02 20:00:00
Type:
OPEN MIC NIGHT with host GG Tanaka at Beckett's Irish Pub in Berkeley! 10PM to 1AM 2 songs per performer Contact GG Tanaka (http://www.myspace.com/ggtanaka) for more information!
Wednesday Open Mic with host GG Tanaka (10PM)
Where: Beckett's Irish Pub
Date: 2008-04-02 20:00:00
Type:
OPEN MIC NIGHT with host GG Tanaka at Beckett's Irish Pub in Berkeley! 10PM to 1AM 2 songs per performer Contact GG Tanaka (http://www.myspace.com/ggtanaka) for more information!
Mesut Ozgen
Where: Freight & Salvage
Date: 2008-04-16 20:00:00
Type:
Mesut Ozgen is well known guitarist who has performed and taught master classes throughout the United States, Spain, and Turkey. He has been a guitar faculty member at the University of California, Santa Cruz since 1998.
Vladimir Tarasov
Where: Freight & Salvage
Date: 2008-04-17 20:00:00
Type:
Vladimir Tarasov is best known as the drummer of The Ganelin Trio, a USSR jazz band that was enormously revolutionary and influential in the Eastern Bloc in the 1970s and '80s
Interactive Presentation: Microfinance
Where: La Pena Cultural Center
Date: 2008-04-02 19:30:00
Type:
Learn how you can participate with any size investment.
Bombazo
Where: La Pena Cultural Center
Date: 2008-04-13 15:00:00
Type:
This Puerto Rican "bomba" music and dance jam features participants of the bomba and "plena" workshops of the 'Maestros de Bomba.'
The Pine Box Boys
Where: Starry Plough Irish Music & Dancing! Every Monday!
Date: 2008-05-17 20:30:00
Type:
The Pine Box Boys feature Lester T. Raww (guitar, vocals), Possum Carvidi (banjo, vocals), Col. Timothy Leather (standup bass) and Steve "Your Uncle" Dodds (drums and percussion). The Pine Box Boys play original and traditional murder ballads. Although the Cowlicks hail from Berkeley, they are more than an urban cowboy band.
Fleeting Trance
Where: Beckett's Irish Pub
Date: 2008-06-12 20:00:00
Type:
FLEETING TRANCE http://www.myspace.com/fleetingtrance http://www.fleetingtrance.com
THE UPTONES-- "Ska dance contest" w/ Justi*fi & Coup de Ska
Where: Ashkenaz
Date: 2008-04-25 21:00:00
Type:
It’s that time again...who wil be the winner this time?... "$100 Ska Dance contest" The UpTones Justi*fi, Coup de Ska, DJ Wally 2Tone Friday, April 25, 2008 @The Ashkenaz, Berkeley all ages - $10 - 9pm http://www.uptones.com/ http://www.justifi.com/ http://www.coupdeska.com/ http://www.myspace.com/wally2tone http://www.ashkenaz.com/ >>-+-+-+-+-+-+-+->
R.E.M.
Where: Greek Theater
Date: 2008-06-01 20:00:00
Type:
2nd show added $39.50 $59.50 $89.50 1st show http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/419313/
Del Rey
Where: Freight & Salvage
Date: 2008-05-13 20:00:00
Type:
Del Ray's guitar playing combines country blues, stride piano, classic jazz and hillbilly boogie through the sensibility of a trailer park esthete. She's fun to watch with her dancing feet, infectious smile, and elegant but goofy outfits.
Jonathan Edwards
Where: Freight & Salvage
Date: 2008-05-17 20:00:00
Type:
Country and folk singer/songwriter Jonathan Edwards is best known for his 1971 crossover hit, 'Sunshine.'
Kathy Kallick and Friends
Where: Freight & Salvage
Date: 2008-05-11 13:00:00
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Kathy Kallick's bluegrass and traditional country classics, as well as her compelling originals, incorporate the unique perspective and refreshing musical sensibilities that won her a Lifetime Achievement Award from the California Bluegrass Association in 2001. Kallick's band features Tom Bekeny on mandolin, Avram Siegel on banjo, Amy Stenberg on bass and Brian Wicklund on fiddle -- sparkles and drives, brilliantly showcasing Kathy's incandescent vocals.
Venture Capital
Where: Haas School of Business (UC Berkeley)
Date: 2008-05-19 08:00:00
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The Venture Capital Executive Program will train participants to understand the complex venture capital marketplace and embrace investment opportunities that have the potential for high returns. In one brief week, participants will have a comprehensive overview of the venture capital marketplace and training in opportunity assessment, valuation, deal structuring, corporate governance, and harvesting investments. Participants will leave the program with the tools needed to identify long-term venture capital opportunities and accelerate the rate of return. The program utilizes varied educational settings including case studies, panel discussions, use of electronic database research tools, and small sub-group workshops. Participants will interact with expert venture capital investors, institutional investors managing venture capital portfolios, lawyers specializing in venture investing and venture fund formation, and entrepreneurs. Four special industry panels will share their approaches in identifying investment opportunities in the most vibrant areas of IT technology, life sciences, as well as green technology, energy, and Nanotech. The sessions will also address how large corporations can utilize venture investing as a corporate strategy, working with entrepreneurs and venture investors to further corporate goals. This venture capital program combines results-oriented training and the kind of entrepreneurial spirit crucial to succeed in the business world. $6000+; Visit our website for pricing information.
Beatbeat Whisper
Where: Starry Plough Irish Music & Dancing! Every Monday!
Date: 2008-05-03 21:30:00
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Beatbeat Whisper is duo featuring Ayla and Davyd who plays folk/bluegrass music. Emily Jane White plays sultry blues and folk tunes obsessed with death and misery. The Porchsteps play acoustic music.
Rabih Alameddine: the Hakawati
Where: Cody's Bookstore
Date: 2008-04-29 19:00:00
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Rabih Alameddine's 'The Hakawati' is an astonishingly inventive, wonderfully exuberant novel that takes readers from the shimmering dunes of ancient Egypt to the war-torn streets of twenty-first-century Lebanon.
Anthony Smith's Trunk Fulla Funk
Where: Starry Plough Irish Music & Dancing! Every Monday!
Date: 2008-05-30 21:00:00
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Charismatic band leader, Anthony Smith and his band Trunk Fulla Funk plays classic funk, rock and soul music. Bulk is a five piece instrumental funk group from the Bay Area.
Black Mountain
Where: Blake's
Date: 2008-04-29 08:30:00
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Black Mountain is a Canadian band that plays murky, blues-infused rock music.
Thievery Corporation
Where: Greek Theatre
Date: 2008-06-20 20:00:00
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tix http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/1C004082CE2645B6 password: cosmic
Jody Stecher and Bill Evans: the Secret Life of Banjos
Where: Freight & Salvage
Date: 2008-06-21 20:00:00
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This show explores the past, present and future of the banjo.
Cory Doctorow - Little Brother
Where: Cody's Books
Date: 2008-05-21 19:00:00
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CORY DOCTOROW reads from LITTLE BROTHER. Free event. Marcus, a.k.a "w1n5t0n," is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works—and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school's clumsy surveillance systems. But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus and his crew are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and whisked away to a secret prison where they're mercilessly interrogated for days. When the DHS finally releases them, Marcus discovers that his city has become a police state. He knows that no one will believe his story, which leaves him only one option: to take down the DHS himself. "I'd recommend Little Brother over pretty much any book I've read this year." —Neil Gaiman Cory Doctorow is a coeditor of Boing Boing and writes columns for Make, Information Week, the Guardian online, and Locus. He has won the Locus Award three times, been nominated for the Hugo and the Nebula, and was named one of the Web's twenty-five influencers by Forbes magazine. He hopes you'll use technology to change the world.
Wednesday Open Mic with host GG Tanaka (10PM)
Where: Beckett's Irish Pub
Date: 2008-06-18 20:00:00
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The Decker Family Band
Where: La Pena Cultural Center
Date: 2008-05-11 16:30:00
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The Deckers is a musical family featuring Eleanor, Eve and Ben. They are charismatic performers who bring a sense of authenticity, kindness and joy to their brand of family music.
OFF PAGE: Old Bears with Dave Newhouse
Where: JCC of the East Bay
Date: 2008-05-27 19:30:00
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Dave Newhouse wondered what happened to the kids in his 1956 graduating class at Menlo-Atherton High School on the Peninsula. With the classs fiftieth reunion approaching in 2006, he hit the road to find out. It turns out these Happy Days kids experienced considerable unhappiness, and tragedy, in their adult years including three classmates whom he interviewed that died before the book was published. Going to school in the 1950s, they experienced historic change: the civil rights movement, space program, rock n roll, the Salk polio vaccine, and the popularity of television, fast food and Elvis. Newhouses book looks into the difficulty of growing olderalcoholism, divorce, blindness, Alzheimers, a son in Iraqand offers valuable lessons for a younger generation. Dave Newhouse is a long-time columnist for the Oakland Tribune. Old Bears is his seventh book.Event submitted by Eventful.com on behalf of JCCEB.
Todd Shipley Band
Where: Beckett's Irish Pub
Date: 2008-05-16 22:00:00
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THE TODD SHIPLEY BAND http://www.toddshipley.com http://www.myspace.com/toddshipley featuring Dave Gursom (bass), GG Tanaka (drums) and Shane Crosby (guitar) http://www.myspace.com/toddshipley http://www.toddshipley.com
Raj Patel discusses Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle f...
Where: Cody's Bookstore
Date: 2008-05-16 19:00:00
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As the global food crisis unfolds around us, Raj Patel conducts a wide-ranging investigation. What he uncovers is shocking—the real reasons for famine in Asia and Africa, an epidemic of farmer suicides, and the false choices and conveniences in supermarkets. Yet he also finds hope—in international resistance movements working to create a more democratic, sustainable, and joyful food system. From seed to store to plate, STUFFED AND STARVED explains the steps to regain control of the global food economy, stop the exploitation of farmers and consumers, and rebalance global sustenance. Raj Patel, former policy analyst for Food First, a leading food think tank, is a visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley Center for African Studies. He has written for the Los Angeles Times and the Guardian, and though he has worked for the World Bank, WTO, and the UN, he's also been tear-gassed on four continents protesting them. "Patel's broad treatment helps the layman connect the dots, as well as hear the voices of those who occupy the lower rungs of the global food chain." -Time Magazine "One of the most dazzling books I've read in a very long time. The product of a brilliant mind and a gift to a world hungering for justice." -Naomi Klein http://www.stuffedandstarved.org/
Fun Friday @ Berkeley Coworking
Where: Berkeley Coworking
Date: 2008-05-23 21:00:00
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Movie Pizza and Beer at Berkeley Coworking. Post your movie title suggestions in the comments below. [UPDATE] I moved the start time to 9:00PM to give the sun a little more time to set before the movie starts. If the weather's nice, we'll setup the movie outdoors.
Robert Lepage: the Andersen Project
Where: University of California, Berkeley Zellerbach Hall
Date: 2008-05-31 20:00:00
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Misery Loves Company
Where: Cody's Bookstore
Date: 2008-06-08 19:00:00
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My Miserable, Lonely, Lesbian Pregnancy is a funny, whiny, all-too-real account of one girl's true adventure in maternity. From finding a great donor who turns out to be shooting blanks ("I was a lesbian with male fertility problems.") through all-day morning sickness and graduation into "fat-girl underwear," Andrea Askowitz's life reads like an antidote to sugar-sweet pregnancy guides and memoirs. Join Andrea on her Misery Loves Company tour during her stop at Cody's. Accompanied by a stellar local line up, she will read with: JILL PIXLEY, MARTA ACOSTA, ADRIENNE AMUNDSON, and KAREN SABINE.
Misery Loves Company
Where: Cody's Bookstore
Date: 2008-06-08 19:00:00
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My Miserable, Lonely, Lesbian Pregnancy is a funny, whiny, all-too-real account of one girl's true adventure in maternity. From finding a great donor who turns out to be shooting blanks ("I was a lesbian with male fertility problems.") through all-day morning sickness and graduation into "fat-girl underwear," Andrea Askowitz's life reads like an antidote to sugar-sweet pregnancy guides and memoirs. Join Andrea on her Misery Loves Company tour during her stop at Cody's. Accompanied by a stellar local line up, she will read with: JILL PIXLEY, MARTA ACOSTA, ADRIENNE AMUNDSON, and KAREN SABINE.