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DESCRIPTION:Writers With Drinks has finally gone too damn far, and something has to be 
 done about it!\n\nWhen: Saturday, April 11, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors 
 open 6:30 PM \nWho: Michael Warr, Kim-Mai Cutler, Mũthoni Kiarie, Kelli 
 Stanley and Joel Selvin! \nHow much: $5 to $20, all proceeds benefit the 
 Center for Sex and Culture​\nWhere: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., 
 San Francisco, CA\n\nAbout the readers/performers:\n\nMichael Warr is 
 author of The Armageddon of Funk, We Are All The Black Boy, and co-editor 
 of Power Lines: A Decade of Poetry From Chicago’s Guild Complex, all from 
 Tia Chucha Press. His literary awards include the Gwendolyn Brooks 
 Significant Illinois Poets Award, a National Endowment of the Arts Creative 
 Writing Fellowship, and most recently the 2012 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles 
 Award for Excellence in Literature, and 2012 Poetry Honor Award from the 
 Black Caucus of the American Library Association.\n\nKim-Mai Cutler is a 
 technology journalist with TechCrunch, who has worked for Bloomberg, 
 VentureBeat and The Wall Street Journal. Before she joined TechCrunch, she 
 led mobile coverage at Inside Network, a six-person media startup that was 
 acquired by WebMediaBrands in 2011 for $14 million in cash and stock. She 
 specializes in covering gaming, distribution and monetization of mobile 
 applications and venture financing.\n\nMũthoni Kiarie grew up in Nairobi, 
 Kenya. She earned her MFA from Mills College and is an alumna of the Voices 
 of Our Nations Arts Foundation. Her novel The Sacred Ibis was honored by 
 the the Joseph Henry Jackson, James D. Phelan, and Mary Tanenbaum Literary 
 Awards.\n\nJoel Selvin, who has covered pop music for the San Francisco 
 Chronicle since 1970, is the author of eight books on the subject, 
 including an award-winning biography of Ricky Nelson and Summer of Love, 
 his best-selling account of the '60s S.F. scene. His other books include 
 Here Comes the Night: The Dark Soul of Bert Berns and the Dirty Business of 
 Rhythm and Blues, San Francisco: The Musical History Tour, and For the 
 Record 4: Sly & the Family Stone.\n\nKelli Stanley is a 
 critically-acclaimed, multiple award-winning author of crime fiction 
 (novels and short stories).  She makes her home in Dashiell Hammett’s San 
 Francisco, a city she loves to write about. Kelli is best known for the 
 Miranda Corbie series of historical noir novels and short stories set in 
 1940 San Francisco. CITY OF DRAGONS won the Macavity Award for Best 
 Historical Novel, and was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a 
 Shamus Award, a Bruce Alexander Award and an RT Book Reviews Award, was a 
 Mystery Guild selection of the month, and placed on many “best of the 
 year” lists.\n\n About Writers With Drinks:\n\nWriters With Drinks has 
 won numerous "Best ofs" from local newspapers, and has been mentioned in 
 7x7, Spin Magazine and one of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City novels. 
 The spoken word "variety show" mixes genres to raise money for local 
 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/2015/04/06/18770837.php
SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks with Michael Warr and Muthoni Kiarie
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/04/06/18770837.php
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