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DESCRIPTION:Writers With Drinks, San Francisco's longest running spoken word variety 
 show, goes further than it's ever gone before!\n\nWhen: Saturday, March 9, 
 2013, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM\nWho: Alexis Madrigal, Jai 
 Arun Ravine, Phil Lapsley and Clarisse Thorn!\nWhere: The Make Out Room, 
 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco\nHow much: $5 to $10 sliding scale, all 
 proceeds benefit the CSC\n\nAbout the writers/readers:\n\nAlexis 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.\n\nJai 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.\n\nPhil 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.\n\nClarisse 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.\n\n\nAbout Writers With Drinks:\n\nWriters 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.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/03/06/18733190.php
SUMMARY:Jai Arun Ravine and Clarisse Thorn at Writers With Drinks
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St.
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