Date: Saturday, March 9, 2013, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM
What: WRITERS WITH DRINKS!
Featuring: Alexis Madrigal, Jai Arun Ravine, Phil Lapsley and Clarisse Thorn!
Location: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco
Admission: $5 to $10 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit the CSC
About the writers/readers:
Alexis Madrigal is a senior editor for The Atlantic where he launched
their new Techology Channel. He is the lead writer as well as host.
Alexis is co-creator of Longshot magazine, a publication created in 48
hours with the help of new internet tools and hundreds of people
submitting content thru the internet. The magazine was awarded the
2010 Knight-Batten Award for innovation. Alexis is author of Powering
the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology, and of the
website greentechhistory.com, the book's ongoing project site. His
research is recovering amazing stories of green technological
experimentation from the past and he explains why these stories
matter: many of them were forks in the road on the way to our present
society and they demonstrate what is possible. Chosen as Required
Reading by Outside magazine. Alexis Madrigal is a senior editor for
The Atlantic where he launched their new Techology Channel. He is the
lead writer as well as host. Alexis is co-creator of Longshot
magazine, a publication created in 48 hours with the help of new
internet tools and hundreds of people submitting content thru the
internet. The magazine was awarded the 2010 Knight-Batten Award for
innovation. Formerly at Wired.com, Alexis followed science and
technology for Wired.com and was a major contributor to its blog Wired
Science.
Jai Arun Ravine is a text-based artist working in video, movement and
performance. Most recently they are the author of a book of
experimental poetics, แล้ว AND THEN ENTWINE (Tinfish Press, 2011); the
creator of a film project on Thai and Thai American
trans-masculinities, TOM/TRANS/THAI, which screened at the Bangkok Art
& Culture Centre (Bangkok, Thailand) and the Sabina Lee Gallery (Los
Angeles); and the creator of a multi-media performance on identity
tourism, THE PACKAGE TOUR, which was staged at Subterranean Arthouse
(Berkeley) and the African American Art & Culture Complex (San
Francisco). A recipient of fellowships from ComPeung, Djerassi and
Kundiman, Jai is a staff writer for Lantern Review.
Phil Lapsley is the author of Exploding The Phone: The Untold Story of
the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell. Lapsley has spent the
last several years documenting the history of phone phreaking through
hundreds of interviews, document searches, and Freedom of Information
act requests. He has been interviewed by National Public Radio and the
BBC and quoted in multiple newspapers, including the New York Times,
on the topic. He has also presented on phone phreaking history at the
10th Annual Vintage Computer Festival and at The Last HOPE conference.
Clarisse Thorn's books include Confessions of a Pickup Artist: Long
Interviews with Hideous Men, Violation: Rape in Gaming, and The S&M
Feminist: Best of Clarisse Thorn. Thorn is also a regular blogger at
the website clarissethorn.com. She is also the co-creator of the
Sex+++ Positive Documentary film series in Chicago, that shows a
documentary at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum every second Tuesday
of the month.
About Writers With Drinks:
Writers With Drinks won "Best Literary Night" from the SF Bay Guardian
readers' poll six years in a row and was named "Best Literary
Drinking" by the SF Weekly. And it was namechecked in Armistead
Maupin's latest Tales of the City novel. The spoken word "variety
show" mixes genres to raise money for local worthy causes. The
award-winning show includes poetry, stand-up comedy, science fiction,
fantasy, romance, mystery, literary fiction, erotica, memoir, zines
and blogs in a freewheeling format.
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