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DESCRIPTION:Writers With Drinks, one of the city's longest running literary events, 
 brings together Jane Wiedlin and Ethan Watters this month!\n\nWhen: 
 Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM\nWho: Jane 
 Wiedlin, Ethan Watters, Jesús Ángel García and Blake Charlton\nWhere: 
 The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St. between Mission and Valencia, San 
 Francisco\nHow much: $5 to $10 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit the 
 CSC.\n\nAbout the readers/performers:\n\nJane Wiedlin co-founded The 
 Go-Go's, the first ever all-girl group to write their own songs, play their 
 own instruments, and become immensely popular doing it. She also released 
 six solo albums, which included the hits “Rush Hour“, “Blue Kiss” 
 and “Tangled.” She became an ordained minister in 2009 is now 
 performing wedding, commitment and vow reaffirmation ceremonies. She 
 co-starred in the Women In Prison movie Stuck, and also appeared in the 
 films Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure and Clue, as well as the 
 television series The Surreal Life. Jane is currently working on her 
 directorial/screenwriting debut, the short film “THE PYREX TALES”. 
 Release date is set for 2011. In addition, she has written two musicals: 
 ‘A NIGHT WITH BETTIE PAGE” and “LADY ROBOTIKA: A SPACE OPERA." She's 
 also released a Lady Robotika comic.\n\nEthan Watters' latest book is Crazy 
 Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche. He's also the author of 
 Urban Tribes, an examination of the mores of affluent “never marrieds” 
 and the coauthor of Making Monsters, a groundbreaking indictment of the 
 recovered memory movement. A frequent contributor to The New York Times 
 Magazine, Discover, Men’s Journal, Details, Wired, and PRI's This 
 American Life, he has appeared on such national media as Good Morning 
 America, Talk of the Nation, and CNN. His work has been featured in the 
 Best American Science and Nature Writing series.\n\nJesús Ángel García 
 is the author of badbadbad, a transmedia novel (forthcoming on the printed 
 page in 2011) about sex, God, rock ‘n’ roll and the social web. 
 Excerpts have appeared in MonkeyBicycle and 3:AM Magazine. "Finnegan's 
 Wank," a bawdy parody of James Joyce, won HTMLGIANT's "When Writers Get 
 Off" contest\n\nNovelist and Stanford M.D. Blake Charlton is the author of 
 the Spellwright Trilogy, consisting of Spellwright and the forthcoming 
 novels Spellbound and Disjunction.\n\nAbout Writers With Drinks:\n\nWriters 
 With Drinks has 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. 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.\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/01/03/18668170.php
SUMMARY:Jane Wiedlin reads at Writers With Drinks
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd St.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/01/03/18668170.php
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