Adult Education: Miscellany (February 7) Now in Manhattan!

I don't want to besiege JSID with a new thread every month, so I'll put the new show information in this thread. I will also be changing the thread title every month but the new show info will be in the latest post.

-Charles

I was surprised seeing this (and ugarte's actual name) in the listings of this week's New Yorker. Congrats on the publicity.

Do you not have your own micro-genre? Or is "hosting discussion of micro-genres" micro enough?

If it weren't my first day at the new job, I'd totally commit to being there.

Jacob 03
I was surprised seeing this (and ugarte's actual name) in the listings of this week's New Yorker. Congrats on the publicity.

Thanks. We got it into Time Out also, so we're very happy with the early attention. Come on flavorpill, join the party!

Tonight!

The first edition of Adult Education was a huge success. Thanks to anyone from eLF that was a part of it.

Next week, Adult Ed is back with "Animals and Sin." Time Out New York has named us a critic's pick and highlighted the show in the "Best by Day" box in the Around Town section for next Tuesday.

This month's show features:

Mikki Halpin: Sexual Violence in the Domestic Pug

Jeffrey Kastner: A Brief History of Animals on Trial

Carrie McLaren: On The Perils of Raising a Chimp with your Child

and HOST Charles Star, who will cover a range of topics ranging from gay, necrophiliac waterfowl to the quest to develop kosher bacon.

Stay Free! magazine Presents
Adult Education: Animals and Sin
Union Hall
Union St. & 5th Ave., Park Slope
Hosted by Charles Star
$5 cover

MIKKI HALPIN is a freelance writer in Brooklyn. The author of three books, she writes about politics, culture, and human nature for magazines like Glamour, Health, Black Book, and Modern Painter.

JEFFREY KASTNER is senior editor at Cabinet magazine and a New York-based critic and journalist who writes on art and culture for publications including Artforum and the New York Times.

CARRIE McLAREN is the editor of Stay Free! magazine, a Brooklyn blogger, and founder of Monkeywire. Her writing has appeared in SPIN, Village Voice, Newsday, Mother Jones, TONY, and other publications.

CHARLES STAR is beloved by all.

This show is tomorrow night!

According to The Onion AV Club, "Adult Education ... manages to be informative and thoroughly entertaining." Be a part of it!



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The first edition of Adult Education was a huge success. Thanks to anyone from eLF that was a part of it.

Next week, Adult Ed is back with "Animals and Sin." Time Out New York has named us a critic's pick and highlighted the show in the "Best by Day" box in the Around Town section for next Tuesday.

This month's show features:

Mikki Halpin: Sexual Violence in the Domestic Pug

Jeffrey Kastner: A Brief History of Animals on Trial

Carrie McLaren: On The Perils of Raising a Chimp with your Child

and HOST Charles Star, who will cover a range of topics ranging from gay, necrophiliac waterfowl to the quest to develop kosher bacon.

Stay Free! magazine Presents
Adult Education: Animals and Sin
Union Hall
Union St. & 5th Ave., Park Slope
Hosted by Charles Star
$5 cover

MIKKI HALPIN is a freelance writer in Brooklyn. The author of three books, she writes about politics, culture, and human nature for magazines like Glamour, Health, Black Book, and Modern Painter.

JEFFREY KASTNER is senior editor at Cabinet magazine and a New York-based critic and journalist who writes on art and culture for publications including Artforum and the New York Times.

CARRIE McLAREN is the editor of Stay Free! magazine, a Brooklyn blogger, and founder of Monkeywire. Her writing has appeared in SPIN, Village Voice, Newsday, Mother Jones, TONY, and other publications.

CHARLES STAR is beloved by all.

Useless Lecture Series Adult Education returns to Park Slope tonight. Adult Education has consistently been named a Critic's Pick in Time Out New York and The Onion AV Club called the series "informative and thoroughly entertaining." According to the New York Times' Urban Eye, "It will get your parahippocampal gyrus (a.k.a. the sarcastic part of your brain) going."

The theme for this month's lectures is "Copycats."

Adult Education: Copycats
June 3, 2008
Union Hall
Union Street and 5th Avenue, Park Slope
Doors open at 7:30
$5

This months lecturers are:

ELNA BAKER, "Babies Buying Babies: Observations from FAO Schwarz"
Elna Baker is a writer, comedic storyteller and monologist. She's performed her stories for This American Life, Studio 360, The Moth, Upright Citizens Brigade, and at many other comedy clubs throughout New York City. Her memoir The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance will be published by Penguin in 2009.

GAYLORD FIELDS, "Yeah Yeah ... Uh, No: Exploring the Audiovisual Phenomenon of Beatles-Lookalike Long Playing Albums"
Gaylord Fields, the senior editor at AOL Music, has previously worked at Rolling Stone and Spin. He also currently hosts a free-form radio program on WFMU in Jersey City every Sunday evening. He has met one Beatle — and three Rutles.

JULIE KLAUSNER, “Cats, Musicals, Fan Fiction and Fan Fiction about Cats The Musical: The Fan as Demented Creator”
Julie Klausner is a lover of cats, musical theater, and at least three other things that are not fascinating to heterosexual men, including heterosexual men. She's written for the New York Times, Salon and The Huffington Post, and she co-hosts the monthly show Obsessed at the UCB Theater. Her latest endeavor, a monthly live Soap Opera called Wasp Cove, stars David Rakoff and runs at Comix in monthly episodic installations.

CARRIE MCLAREN, "The Media Made Me Do It: The Human Being As Copycat"
Carrie McLaren founded Stay Free!, curates Adult Education, and blogs sporadically at Hawthorne Street. Her book Shopping for Cancer: A Field Guild to Consumer Culture, will be published by Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux in 2009. Ms. McLaren's last lecture for Adult Ed was "How NOT to Raise a Chimp in Your Home: the Legacy of W.N. Kellogg."

And your host, CHARLES STAR
Charles Star is a lawyer sans portfolio and a stand-up comedian sans recognition. He lives in Brooklyn with his excellent wife, his awesome cat, and a fetus who is already tracking well above grade level.

For those interested, this is the lecture that I did at the May show:
[www.archive.org]

After a long summer off, Adult Ed returns with a special back-to-school topic, "School for Scandal."

Featuring:

"Authenticity and Reality: Lessons from the New York Reality TV School," presented by the school's founder, Robert Galinsky.

"Takeru Kobayashi Cheated!" an explosive investigation by Gersh Kuntzman, who has seen his share of scandals as a veteran of the New York Post and the current editor of The Brooklyn Paper.


"Cruel Intentions," a look at the uncensored, racist, and shockingly nasty online gossip forum Juicy Campus by magazine writer Jeff Bercovici, who recently investigated the controversial site for Radar magazine.


"The Show-Off," a cautionary film from 1954, courtesy of Skip Elsheimer at the A/V Geeks film archive, that "demonstrates that nothing scandalizes a classroom more than the wise-ass who sits in the back of the room. Sure, all the kids laugh at him but isn't he ultimately making things worse for everybody?"


All hosted by Charles Star, a lawyer sans portfolio and a stand-up comedian sans recognition who lives in Brooklyn with his excellent wife, his awesome cat, and a newborn baby genius. He will be giving a lecture about a surprise topic.

Adult Education: School for Scandal
September 16, 2008
Union Hall
Union Street @ 5th Avenue (Park Slope)
$5
Doors open at 7:30, show starts promptly at 8.

See you there?

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14 at 7:30PM
Adult Education at Union Hall "Hunting and Gathering"
[unionhallny.com]
Union St. @ 5th Avenue
$5

We have another excellent lineup! Once again, we are a Time Out NY pick of the week! Come see the show The Onion A/V Club called "informative and thoroughly entertaining."

[adult-ed.net]

"No Park City"
Designer Paul Shaw casts a typographer's eye over his growing collection of "No Parking" signs from around New York City.

"Mice, Deer, and Terrorists: Three Things Made Easier to Kill"
A survey of recent inventions, compiled by patent-hunter Daniel Wright.

"The Ties That Blind"
Francis Heaney's neverending quest to find ties and shirts that shouldn't go together, but do.

"America's Awkward Stage"
Alexandra Ringe pages through a century's worth of yearbooks and unearths the moments we'd rather forget.

All hosted by comedian Charles Star, ILR '92.

BIOS
Paul Shaw is a lettering artist, graphic designer and design historian. He has designed logos for Barbie, Origins, Campbell Soup, Lord & Taylor, Methodist Hospital and others. As a former partner in LetterPerfect he has designed or co-designed 18 typefaces including Kolo, Old Claude and Bermuda. Paul teaches calligraphy at Parsons School of Design and the History of Typography at the School of Visual Arts. He writes on type and lettering related topics for Print, Baseline, and AIGA Voice. He has never owned a car, but he does know how to parallel park.

Daniel Wright is the founder of http://
www.patentlysilly.com and the author of Patently Silly: The Daftest Inventions Ever Devised (Prion 2008, Lyons Press 2009).

Francis Heaney writes puzzles, songs, musicals, cartoons, humor, and maybe a novel if he ever gets around to finishing it. His humor book, Holy Tango of Literature, is so funny that it was immediately taken out of print, lest it render all other humor books superfluous. Most recently, he compiled and edited a book of dirty crosswords, entitled Crasswords. He blogs at [www.francisheaney.com]

Alexandra Ringe is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn. She edited the book Rough Draft: Pop Culture the Way It Almost Was, and her writing has appeared in such magazines as New York, Metropolis, Radar, and Stay Free.

Charles Star (ILR '92) is a lawyer sans portfolio and a stand-up comedian sans recognition who lives in Brooklyn with his excellent wife, his awesome cat, and a newborn baby genius. He's on the web at [www.charlesstar.com]

We just got a nice notice in Brooklyn Based, including a lovely photo of yours truly.

ADULT EDUCATION PRESENTS: LIES AND LIARS
Tuesday, Nov 11 2008 - 8 pm (doors at 7:30)
Union Hall in Park Slope
702 Union St. @ 5th Ave
$5 cover

Adult Education welcomes a panel of presenters to speak on the theme of "Lies and Liars." The line-up will include:

"The Way We Lie"
Is a white lie a gateway drug to larger lies? Writer Jill Stoddard investigates this and other fun facts about lying, including some she made up on her own.

"On the Internet, Nobody Knows You're a Fraud"
D.E. Rasso examines the duplicitous and desperate world of Internet impostors.

"You Are Not Going to Be Famous"
Jim Hanas debunks America's big lie.

All hosted by comedian Charles Star.

BIOS
Jill Stoddard is a Brooklyn-based writer and web editor who has had a few funny things published in McSweeney's and by NPR. She is currently working on a story about two gingerbread cookies who fall in love and then eat each other. She has told many, many lies.

D.E. Rasso is a writer and editor whose work has appeared on blogs such as #1 Hit Song, Blottered, and Young Manhattanite. An essay is forthcoming in (what may or may not be called) The Book of Exes (Plume, 2009). Most recently, she argued about Jane's Addiction with author Charles Bock on a panel at the Downtown Omaha Litfest. When not working on her imaginary novel and collection of essays, she enjoys going online and pretending to be a cancer-riddled, transgendered fighter pilot.

Jim Hanas's writing has appeared in Radar, Slate, McSweeney's, One Story, Print, and other publications. Lately, he's been helping to curate and produce Adult Education. He's as disappointed as you are that fame will ultimately elude us all.

Charles Star is a lawyer sans portfolio and a stand-up comedian sans recognition who lives in Brooklyn with his excellent wife, his awesome cat, and a newborn baby genius. He's on the web at www.charlesstar.com.

ugarte
We just got a nice notice in Brooklyn Based, including a lovely photo of yours truly.

ADULT EDUCATION PRESENTS: LIES AND LIARS
Tuesday, Nov 11 2008 - 8 pm (doors at 7:30)
Union Hall in Park Slope
702 Union St. @ 5th Ave
$5 cover

Update:

First of all, we got a great little blurb in Time Out NY's "Essentials" Issue.

Second, we have added "Confessions of a Literary Forger": Lee Israel, author of the memoir Can You Ever Forgive Me?, details her career in literary crime.

Lee Israel is the author of biographies of Tallulah Bankhead, Estee Lauder, and Dorothy Kilgallen—the last of which was a New York Times bestseller. Her latest book, Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger was published in August by Simon & Schuster. It chronicles the twenty year chasm between her early successes and publication of the memoir, and details why and how she turned her talents for research and reporting to high crime and class A-felonies.

This is going to be a great show.

ugarte

ugarte
We just got a nice notice in Brooklyn Based, including a lovely photo of yours truly.

ADULT EDUCATION PRESENTS: LIES AND LIARS
Tuesday, Nov 11 2008 - 8 pm (doors at 7:30)
Union Hall in Park Slope
702 Union St. @ 5th Ave
$5 cover

Update:

First of all, we got a great little blurb in Time Out NY's "Essentials" Issue.

This is going to be a great show.

Day of show bump.

ADULT EDUCATION PRESENTS: Misspent Youth
Wednesday, Dec. 17 2008 - 8 pm (doors at 7:30)
Union Hall in Park Slope
702 Union St. @ 5th Ave
$5 cover

In December, Adult Education welcomes a panel of presenters to excavate the past -- theirs and ours -- while addressing the topic of "Misspent Youth." The line-up will include:

"The Original Orgy"
Francesco Marciuliano connects the dots between 151 naked people, six dogs, and one childhood. (His own.)

"Please Don't Let It Be My Turn Next: Oral Reports From the 1980s"
Andrew Hearst revives several vintage speeches he once delivered in English class, including a celebration of his family's first personal computer, the legendary Radio Shack TRS-80.

"This Is Eternal Life in Paradise"
Kyria Abrahams, author of the upcoming memoir I'm Perfect, You're Doomed: Tales From A Jehovah's Witness Upbringing, welcomes you to your amazing new life after the Great War of Armageddon.

"My Oldest Surviving Mix Tape: A Critical Appraisal"
Erik Seims analyzes his musical choices, life choices, and hair choices from 1986 to 1988, through the prism of stuff he taped off the radio.

All hosted by comedian Charles Star.

BIOS
Francesco Marciuliano writes the syndicated comic strip Sally Forth and the online webcomic Medium Large. He was a writer for the Emmy Award-winning PBS show SeeMore's Playhouse and is now the head writer for the upcoming children's show The Magic Tent. He is a contributing writer for the Onion News Network and is currently developing a new comic strip he pitched as "The Family Circus meets Blade Runner."

Andrew Hearst is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and the proprietor of panopticist.com, a culture blog.

Kyria Abrahams is the author of I'm Perfect, You're Doomed: Tales From A Jehovah's Witness Upbringing (Touchstone, 2009). Her humor has also been published in Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure and the The Book of Zines: Readings from the Fringe. For two years, she was a columnist for Jest magazine, and she has performed at alternative comedy shows like Eating It and Invite Them Up, as well as at literary readings like How to Kick People.

From 1999 through 2005, Erik Seims was a chronic performer, writer, and producer, primarily on the Lower East Side; and was a regular contributor to the late, awesome Jest magazine. He's starting to perform again on a regular basis, and at some point next year he might get his tour guide license, which would be a perfect venue for his hobby of making stuff up and telling it to strangers.

Charles Star is a lawyer sans portfolio and a stand-up comedian sans recognition who lives in Brooklyn with his excellent wife, his awesome cat, and a newborn baby genius. He's on the web at charlesstar.com.

ugarte
ADULT EDUCATION PRESENTS: Misspent Youth
Wednesday, Dec. 17 2008 - 8 pm (doors at 7:30)
Union Hall in Park Slope
702 Union St. @ 5th Ave
$5 cover
Bump

ADULT EDUCATION PRESENTS: THE YEAR IN REVIEW

Tuesday, January 6, 2009 - 8 pm (doors at 7:30)
Union Hall in Park Slope
702 Union St. @ 5th Ave
$5 cover

In January, Adult Education welcomes a panel of presenters to look back on 2008—and ahead to 2009. The line-up for "The Year in Review" will include:

Things We Lost
From Astroland to Yankee Stadium, Patrick Di Justo takes us on a tour of the people and things that collapsed, died, or evolved away in 2008.

Crusty, Saucy, Cheesy
Food blogger Adam Kuban reviews the year in pizza, during which the humble pie made technological advances yet remained true to its roots.

Welcome to the Night
Joe Garden considers the year in vampires.

The Year of Payback
Trendspotter Marian Salzman explains why the buzzword for 2009 will be "reboot."

All hosted by comedian Charles Star.

BIOS
Patrick Di Justo is the author of the forthcoming book The Science of Battlestar Galactica from John Wiley and Sons. He is a contributing editor at Wired magazine, where he writes the "What's Inside" column.

Adam Kuban is the founder and editor of Slice, a weblog about pizza. He has the largest collection of "pizza upskirt" photographs in existence—or so he believes.

Joe Garden is features editor for The Onion. He is also a member of the writing group Action 5, which has published The Dangerous Book for Dogs and The Devious Book for Cats. They are currently at work on The New Vampire's Handbook.

Veteran trendspotter Marian Salzman, partner and chief marketing officer at public relations firm Porter Novelli, is the author of 15 books, including Next Now, The Future of Men, and Buzz.

Charles Star is a lawyer sans portfolio and a stand-up comedian sans recognition who lives in Brooklyn with his excellent wife, his awesome cat, and a newborn baby genius. He's on the web at [www.charlesstar.com].

ADULT EDUCATION PRESENTS: THE YEAR IN REVIEW

Tuesday, January 6, 2009 - 8 pm (doors at 7:30)
Union Hall in Park Slope
702 Union St. @ 5th Ave
$5 cover

I wonder if Beeeej is going.

ugarte

ADULT EDUCATION PRESENTS: THE YEAR IN REVIEW

Tuesday, January 6, 2009 - 8 pm (doors at 7:30)
Union Hall in Park Slope
702 Union St. @ 5th Ave
$5 cover

I wonder if Beeeej is going.

I'm planning to be there, +1.

Anybody bringing the cowbell?

Adult Education is a Brooklyn-based lecture series devoted to making useless knowledge somewhat less useless. Each month is devoted to a given theme, and several speakers address that theme using visual aids.

Safety Lessons
March 3 at 8PM (doors at 7:30 and seats fill up fast)
Union Hall
Union St. between 5th and 6th Aves. (Park Slope)
$5

Featuring:

DAVID JOHNS, "How to Honk Your Horn"
This talk will present the results of an investigation into the utility and safety effectiveness of the automobile horn. Please refrain from honking during the presentation.

ROGER MA, "Zombie Hand-to-Hand Combat: Effective Non-Ballistic Undead Neutralization Methods"
This presentation will cover the proper way to engage the living dead in combat without a firearm, and survive. Topics will include: anatomy, weapons, techniques, and common misconceptions of confronting a ravenous walking corpse.

THERESE MAHLER, "Surviving adolescent management of amusement park rides"
Therese Mahler will discuss what happens when inattentive staff and under-prepared patrons meet at a poorly maintained, participatory theme park in the foothills of New Jersey.

CARLOS YU, "A Brief Foray into the World of Medical Self-Experimentation"

And, par usual, your host, CHARLES STAR

BIOS

DAVID JOHNS is a writer and public radio producer in New York. His stories have appeared in Slate, The Washington Post, All Things Considered, Living On Earth, Studio 360 and Fair Game from PRI, a now-defunct news and comedy show where he used to work. He lacks a valid driver's license.

ROGER MA is the founder of The Zombie Combat Club, , an organization that develops strategies and techniques to battle the living dead without the use of a firearm. He is also the Team Chief for one of New York City's Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT), a civilian volunteer group that assists first responders in the event of a city emergency (including zombie attack.) His book, The Zombie Combat Manual: A Guide to Fighting the Living Dead, will be published by Berkley Books next year.

THERESE MAHLER spent her teens and early 20s working at a New Jersey amusement park better known for its injury rate than its rides. She and some of her former co-workers blog about it at The Center of the Action She once won $1550 in the Cash Cab and can occasionally be heard on WFMU.

CARLOS YU has been a biochemist, a comic strip writer, an over-the-counter securities broker-dealer, a consultant for Harvard Business School in economic history, and a barista. Like so many Brooklynites, he is originally from Wisconsin. He is single.

CHARLES STAR (HOST) is a lawyer sans portfolio and a stand-up comedian sans recognition who lives in Brooklyn with his excellent wife, his awesome cat, and a baby genius.

Adult Education is a Brooklyn-based lecture series devoted to making useless knowledge somewhat less useless. Each month is devoted to a given theme, and several speakers address that theme using visual aids. In April:

ADULT EDUCATION PRESENTS: "COLOR SCHEMES"
Tuesday, April 7, 2009 - 8 pm (doors at 7:30)
Union Hall in Park Slope
702 Union St. @ 5th Ave
$5 cover

MEGAN MONTAGUE CASH, "Crayon Boxes Through the Ages"
Hang on tight! Megan Montague Cash takes you on a wild ride while exploring the history of crayon packaging.

LAURIE ROSENWALD, "Mutant Bastard Yucky Colors of the Apocalypse"
Lavender is the yellow of Japan. Hot pink is the navy blue of India. So how did dusty rose, teal, suntan, and what the author Douglas Coupland calls "veal" become America's first palette? Laurie Rosenwald investigates.

JENNIFER L. KNOX, "The Making of Brown"
Jennifer L. Knox explains the historical evolution of the primary colors, their permutations, and why sleeping in a red t-shirt three nights in a row can give you a sinus infection.

JUDE STEWART, "Decoding Color"
From blue collars to white telephones, Jude Stewart explores colors and their meanings.

All hosted by Charles Star.

BIOS

MEGAN MONTAGUE CASH gave up her previous career of writing, illustrating, and designing children’s books in order to pursue her true passion: crayon boxes. She teaches a class on crayon packaging at Pratt Institute. Her favorite color is "flesh." See also Bow-Wow Books.

LAURIE ROSENWALD does graphic design for IKEA, animation for the Sundance Channel and Noggin, and drawings for The New Yorker. Her new book, All the Wrong People Have Self-Esteem (Bloomsbury) is available wherever books are sold. It is an inappropriate book for young ladies, and frankly, anybody else. It is the only book you will ever need, except for her other book: And to name but just a few: Red, Yellow, Green, Blue.

JENNIFER L. KNOX is the author of two books of poems in English, Drunk by Noon and A Gringo Like Me. Her poems have appeared in three editions of the Best American Poetry series (1997, 2003 and 2006), as well as the anthologies Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to Present, and Best American Erotic Poetry. She is a three-time Milwaukee poetry slam champion.

JUDE STEWART writes about design, culture, and all kinds of other things for Slate, Business Week, The Believer, and other magazines. Her talk is based on her column "Color is ..." for STEP inside design magazine.

CHARLES STAR is a lawyer sans portfolio and a stand-up comedian sans recognition who lives in Brooklyn with his excellent wife, his awesome cat, and a newborn baby genius.

ADULT EDUCATION PRESENTS: "URBAN TRAVEL"
Tuesday, June 2, 2009 - 8 pm (doors at 7:30)
Union Hall in Park Slope
702 Union St. @ 5th Ave
$5 cover

EDDIE JABBOUR, "Building a Better Subway Map"
Can the NYC subway map be improved? Designer Eddie Jabbour thinks so.

SUZANNE REISMAN, "Take the A Train"
Author Suzanne Reisman provides a guide to hidden treasures along the A train's route.

MATT MURO, "The Passive-Aggressive Turd From the Suburbs"
How one man learned about the true nature of his soul after building what he thought was a silly website.

CULLY LONG, "Underground Life Drawing"
On the subway, you might see people reading, sleeping, listening to music, or just generally zoned out. Cully Long sees models for his sketches.

With your host, CHARLES STAR

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EDDIE JABBOUR is creative director at Kick Design and creator of KickMap, an alternative to the official map of the New York City subway system.

SUZANNE REISMAN is the author of Off the Beaten (Subway) Track: New York City's Best Unusual Attractions. She was the female victor in the 2005 South Street Seaport qualifier for the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, where she ate 6.5 hot dogs and buns—beating out a bailiff who only downed five. Suzanne blogs about things that amuse or annoy her at [cussandotherrants.com].

MATT MURO, who navigated NYC's subway system while on crutches for five months, is a senior web producer and editor at VH1 Digital. He has also worked for New York Times Digital and The Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News online.

CULLY LONG is a scenic designer, illustrator, and graphic designer who has been sketching passengers on the subway for 4 years. He self-published a collection of his sketches in 2006 entitled A Line: Sketch Portraits From The New York City Subway.

CHARLES STAR (HOST) is a lawyer sans portfolio and a stand-up comedian sans recognition who lives in Brooklyn with his excellent wife, his awesome cat, and a baby genius.

ADULT EDUCATION PRESENTS:
"AD NAUSEAM: LESSONS FROM CONSUMER CULTURE"
Tuesday, July 7, 2009 - 8 pm (doors at 7:30)
Union Hall in Park Slope
702 Union St. @ 5th Ave
$5 cover

Note: This month's show is doing double-duty as a book release party for Ad Nauseam: A Survivor's Guide to American Consumer Culture (Faber and Faber, June 23), edited by Adult Ed founder Carrie McLaren and her longtime writing partner, Jason Torchinsky.

CARRIE McLAREN
"The Strange and Curious History of Subliminal Advertising"
Ms. McLaren discusses the little-known origins of "subthreshold" persuasion — and the businesses that, against all apparent odds, made a mint off of subliminal advertising.

JASON TORCHINSKY
"On the Purity of Car Insurance Advertising and the Many and Diverse Ways it Sucks Profoundly"
Due to the alarmingly insubstantial nature of their product, car insurance commercials have evolved to become the purest sort of advertising, spawning mascots and spokescharacters. Mr. Torchinsky surveys their tactics in this brief lecture. As exciting as it sounds!

DAVID ANGELO
"Advertising and the Celebration of Deferred Responsibility"
Mr. Angelo uses contemporary examples in advertising to illustrate his point that all marketing campaigns require their intended targets to abandon the basic concept of personal responsibility.

+ 1 more lecture TBA

With your host, CHARLES STAR

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DAVID ANGELO is a New York-based comedian and internet-radio folk hero. Raised in historic Lexington, Massachusetts, he proudly carries on the tradition of revolutionary dissent. You can find him online at [chickenpadthai.com].

CARRIE McLAREN is co-editor of Ad Nauseam: A Survivor's Guide to American Consumer Culture and founder of the hopelessly obscure and now defunct Stay Free! magazine. Her last talk for Adult Ed was "How to Raise an Ape in Your Home."

JASON TORCHINSKY is the other co-editor of Ad Nauseam. An artist and writer based in Los Angeles, he writes for the Onion News Network but merely for sport.

CHARLES STAR (host) is a lawyer sans portfolio and a stand-up comedian sans recognition who lives in Brooklyn with his excellent wife, his awesome cat, and a baby genius. He now writes for, of all things, a mostly-libertarian website because the other writers at Popehat are smart and funny and asked him to come aboard despite his leftward leanings.

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ADULT EDUCATION PRESENTS:
"AD NAUSEAM: LESSONS FROM CONSUMER CULTURE"
Tuesday, July 7, 2009 - 8 pm (doors at 7:30)
Union Hall in Park Slope
702 Union St. @ 5th Ave
$5 cover

Note: This month's show is doing double-duty as a book release party for Ad Nauseam: A Survivor's Guide to American Consumer Culture (Faber and Faber, OUT NOW!), edited by Adult Ed founder Carrie McLaren and her longtime writing partner, Jason Torchinsky.

This is tonight. It will be excellent. Please join us.

Also, if you are interested in the book, there are many places to purchase it.

ADULT EDUCATION PRESENTS: "BEER MATTERS"
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 - 8 pm (doors at 7:30)
702 Union St. @ 5th Ave
$5 cover

ELIZABETH BRADLEY
"Knickerbocker: Nativism, Prohibition, and the Rise of New York's Namesake Beer"
Elizabeth Bradley is Deputy Director of the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. When not venerating librarians, she writes about New York history and culture. She is the author of Knickerbocker: The Myth Behind New York, and edited the Penguin Classic of Washington Irving's A History of New York, the 1809 satire that unleashed Knickerbocker in all his buckle-shoe glory on an unsuspecting world.

BRENDAN I. KOERNER
"The Madonna of Malternatives: Zima and the Challenges of Brand Reinvention"
Brendan I. Koerner is a contributing editor at Wired and the author of 'Now the Hell Will Start," which he's currently adapting for Spike Lee's 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks. He blogs daily at Microkhan.com.

ERICA SHEA & STEPHEN VALAND
"Secrets of Brewing In the Modern New York Apartment"
Erica Shea & Stephen Valand own and operate the Brooklyn Brew Shop out of the Brooklyn Flea. The two began making beer the same way most kids get into stamps, model airplanes, and civil war reenactments, mainly by finding some dusty equipment in a parent's basement and figuring out on the internet what to do with it.

BILL WANDER
"The Truth about McSorley's: Reenvisioning Joseph Mitchell's 'Wonderful Saloon' "
Bill Wander is the historian for McSorley's Old Ale House in the East Village and has spent more than 20 years as a documentary film-maker for National Geographic, The Discovery and History Channels, the three major networks, and Public Television. He is working on a book about the history of McSorley's to be titled "Sawdust on the Floor." He began his working life at the South Street Seaport Museum, continued on to the National Maritime Historical Society, has consulted for the Smithsonian, the Museum of the City of New York, and the Scarsdale Historical Society.

Hosted by CHARLES STAR
Charles Star frequently posts on eLF as "ugarte," He rarely gets to watch any hockey so he tends to stick to making jokes about libertarianism.

Tonight!

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ADULT EDUCATION PRESENTS: "BEER MATTERS"
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 - 8 pm (doors at 7:30)
702 Union St. @ 5th Ave
$5 cover

ELIZABETH BRADLEY
"Knickerbocker: Nativism, Prohibition, and the Rise of New York's Namesake Beer"
Elizabeth Bradley is Deputy Director of the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. When not venerating librarians, she writes about New York history and culture. She is the author of Knickerbocker: The Myth Behind New York, and edited the Penguin Classic of Washington Irving's A History of New York, the 1809 satire that unleashed Knickerbocker in all his buckle-shoe glory on an unsuspecting world.

BRENDAN I. KOERNER
"The Madonna of Malternatives: Zima and the Challenges of Brand Reinvention"
Brendan I. Koerner is a contributing editor at Wired and the author of 'Now the Hell Will Start," which he's currently adapting for Spike Lee's 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks. He blogs daily at Microkhan.com.

ERICA SHEA & STEPHEN VALAND
"Secrets of Brewing In the Modern New York Apartment"
Erica Shea & Stephen Valand own and operate the Brooklyn Brew Shop out of the Brooklyn Flea. The two began making beer the same way most kids get into stamps, model airplanes, and civil war reenactments, mainly by finding some dusty equipment in a parent's basement and figuring out on the internet what to do with it.

BILL WANDER
"The Truth about McSorley's: Reenvisioning Joseph Mitchell's 'Wonderful Saloon' "
Bill Wander is the historian for McSorley's Old Ale House in the East Village and has spent more than 20 years as a documentary film-maker for National Geographic, The Discovery and History Channels, the three major networks, and Public Television. He is working on a book about the history of McSorley's to be titled "Sawdust on the Floor." He began his working life at the South Street Seaport Museum, continued on to the National Maritime Historical Society, has consulted for the Smithsonian, the Museum of the City of New York, and the Scarsdale Historical Society.

Hosted by CHARLES STAR
Charles Star frequently posts on eLF as "ugarte," He rarely gets to watch any hockey so he tends to stick to making jokes about libertarianism.

ADULT EDUCATION PRESENTS: "The Proper Prank"
Tuesday, November 3, 8 pm (doors at 7:30)
Union Hall in Park Slope
702 Union Street at 5th Ave.
$5 cover

The Yes Men, "Doing it Outside In: Breaking the Bank with the Yes Men"
One half of the infamous New York duo presents strategies for infiltrating business conferences, masquerading as corporate execs, and successfully lowering blue-chip stock prices.

Tim Harrod, "You Are Dumb: How the Media are Pranking You Even as You Read This Events Listing"
The Onion's history is riddled with occasions where the newspaper's satirical stories were accepted as fact by individuals and large groups. Tim Harrod discusses the implications of trusting the media under any circumstances.

Patrick DiJusto, "The Day I Gave My Brother Appendicitis"
Mr. DiJusto presents lessons gleaned from a high school prank gone awry.

Stephen Bruckert "Don't Feed The Trolls: Life Lessons From The Internet's Most Popular Blood Sport"
People all over the world are playing a game on the internet, and the object of the game is to make strangers waste time and emotional energy. What are the rules of the game? What strategies do trolls use to win? And why are trolls so important?

Hosted, as always, by the inimitable Charles Star

BIOS

STEPHEN BRUCKERT is a tech-head polymath workaholic obsessed with internet-based collaborative culture, design, text, the ephemeral business of conveying ideas, and also his wife. He also has a day job.

PATRICK DI JUSTO is the co-author of the forthcoming book The Science of Battlestar Galactica from John Wiley and Sons. He is a Contributing Editor at Wired, where he writes the "What's Inside" column.

TIM HARROD has written humor for The Onion, The Late Show with David Letterman and Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Not even that is good enough.

THE YES MEN, Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno, directed and star in The Yes Men Fix the World, a documentary that chronicles the duo's efforts to parody and expose corporate misdeeds. For more on their work, from masquerading as the Dow Chemical execs to advocating slavery, visit TheYesMen.org.

CHARLES STAR (HOST) is a lawyer sans portfolio and a stand-up comedian sans recognition who lives in Brooklyn with his excellent wife, his awesome cat, and a budding baby genius. He doesn't do much on the web these days except Twitter and goes by ugarte when talking about Cornell sports, where he is recognized as having a lot of opinions even though he doesn't get to watch much hockey.

ADULT EDUCATION PRESENTS:
"Death"
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 - 8 pm (doors at 7:30)
Union Hall in Park Slope
702 Union St. @ 5th Ave
$5 cover

DORIAN DEVINS, MARGARET MITTELBACH, & ANDREW TEMPLAR
"Death and Taxidermy: The Ape That Launched 1000 Quips"
Devins, Mittelbach, and Templar discuss observations gleaned from four years of Carnivorous Nights, an annual taxidermy contest held in Brooklyn.

ALEX PAREENE
"Everyone Is Trying To Kill You: Analyzing Homicidal Tendencies In Electronic Information Networks"
The most dangerous people in America today are celebrities. And Arianna Huffington is letting them blog. Alex Pareene assesses recent threats to our national health from Suzanne Somers and Canada.

KATHARINE HELLER
"Le Petit Mort: Death as a Metaphor for Orgasm in Popular Culture and Literature"
Heller looks at the various ways in which death, much like everything else, is tied to sex.

JOANNA EBENSTEIN
"Morbid Anatomies and Anatomical Theatres: A Guided Tour through the Macabre World of Medical Museums"
What is the difference between a wet and a dry specimen? Why did people make life-sized, recumbent wax women whose insides could be taken apart into dozens of pieces? Where did Gunther von Hagens (Body Worlds exhibit) get his schtick? Joanna Ebenstein presents a virtual tour of great medical museums of the western world.

Hosted, as always, by the inimitable Charles Star

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DORIAN DEVINS and MARGARET MITTELBACH are cofounders of Secret Science Club, a monthly lecture series at the Bell House in Brooklyn. Devins is a radio producer and host of WFMU, 91.1 FM's "The Speakeasy," a weekly arts and cultural interview program. Mittelbach is co-author, with ANDREW TEMPLAR, of Carnivorous Nights: On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger and author of Wild New York: A Guide to the Wildlife, Wild Places and Natural Phenomena of New York City. Templar is co-owner of Union Hall, the Bell House, Floyd, and the mysterious 'rump ape.'

JOANNA EBENSTEIN is a Brooklyn based artist. She runs the Morbid Anatomy blog and the Morbid Anatomy Library. She is also the founding member of Observatory, a collaborative Gowanus-based exhibition/presentation space where she presents lectures on a variety of morbid topics. Her recent exhibition, Anatomical Theatre, is a photo survey of great medical museums of the western world.

KATHARINE HELLER is a writer, actress and comedian. Most recently, she wrote and produced an award-winning show at the New York International Fringe Festival, The Boy in the Basement. Heller has been a regular theater and nightlife reviewer for the online magazine New York Cool and is working on her first one-woman show, My Dad's Crazier Than Your Dad.

ALEX PAREENE writes about politics for Gawker and is author of the blog Everyone Is Trying To Kill You. Formerly, he was Editor of Washington DC gossip website Wonkette. His writing has appeared on many famous and popular internet sites, on the World Wide Web. He is not a doctor and, in fact, did not even finish attaining a BFA.

CHARLES STAR (HOST) is a lawyer sans portfolio and a stand-up comedian sans recognition who lives in Brooklyn with his excellent wife, his awesome cat, and a budding baby genius. He's on the web at charlesstar.com.

Got an idea for an Adult Ed lecture? Email your pitch to adulted (at) stayfreemagazine.org.

We have started posting videos of selected lectures on BlipTV. You can see the Adult Education archive here.

The only lecture of mine currently up is "A Short Selection of the Worst Toys in the World" but there is a lot of great stuff. Sorry about the video quality in the early vids. My camera is home-use quality and the lighting at Union Hall is horrible.

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The only lecture of mine currently up is "A Short Selection of the Worst Toys in the World"

Good stuff.

"Homespun and Handmade"
Tuesday, April 6, 2010 - 8 pm (doors at 7:30)
Union Hall in Park Slope
702 Union St. @ 5th Ave
$5 cover

LAURA SILVER, "Consider the Knish"
Silver presents her field notes from a search for identity, belonging, and a humble hunk of dough. Ms. Silver will be baking knishes for all attendees.

MICHELE FILON, "Winners Never Quilt and Quilters Never Win"
Filon examines the media effects of the Red State/Blue State crafting chasm.

MATT HABER, "Citizen Sid"
Haber explores the amazing life and career of Sidney N. Laverents, America's greatest armchair auteur.

JESSICA PIGZA, "The Craft Heap of History"
Pigza surveys early twentieth century craft books advocating the creative use of castoff materials.

Hosted, as always, by the inimitable Charles Star

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When Mrs. Stahl's 70-year-old Brighton Beach knishery bit the dust, LAURA SILVER was hot on the trail. Her knish hunt has since led to three continents, countless jokes, and some unexpected punchlines.

MICHELE FILON realized early that the CPA thing wasn't going to make her happy, so she opted for words, crafts, and poverty. She has written for, edited for, and/or designed for BâbyGap, magazines including Good Housekeeping's Holiday Best and Family Circle's Home Crafts, and books like Wonderful Bâby Quilts to Make and Hachette's Cool Crafts. She lives in Chelsea with her boyfriend, dog, cat, and more craft supplies than she can ever use.

MATT HABER has written for The New York Observer, The New York Times, Esquire, and other publications. In 2004, he profiled Sid Laverents (then age 95) for the Times.

JESSICA PIGZA is a rare books librarian at The New York Public Library. She is an avid seamstress and knitter, an enthusiast of books and other objects you can learn to make by hand, and a lover of vintage craft guides. She's on the web at Handmade Librarian and HandMade at NYPL.

CHARLES STAR (HOST) is a lawyer sans portfolio and a stand-up comedian sans recognition who lives in Brooklyn with his excellent wife, his awesome cat, and a budding baby genius.

Wow. I haven't posted one of these in a while. The show is going very well again. You should join us.

Adult Ed presents "Remixed"
March 1 7:30PM
Union Hall
702 Union St. & 5th Ave., Park Slope
$5

DOOGIE HORNER, "U.S. Presidential Rumble: Wrestling with History"
If all the U.S. Presidents fought each other, who would win? (You may be thinking Benjamin Harrison, but he's eliminated in the second bracket of round four.)

NATE HARRISON, "Can I Get An Amen? A Political Economy Of Music Sampling."
Harrison examines a socioeconomic history of the ubiquitous Amen Break.

SARA TAKSLER, "School of Doc: How To Make Your Documentary Financially Successful"
Based on the multi-zillion dollar success of her documentary, TWISTED: A Balloonamentary, Taksler reveals how to make your film marketable.

KIRBY FERGUSON, "Influence, Appropriation, and Theft"
Ferguson, creator of the "Everything Is a Remix" video mini-series, surveys the continuum between genius and plagiarism.

Hosted by the inimitable CHARLES STAR

BIOS

KIRBY FERGUSON is a professional video producer and the creator of the video mini-series, Everything is a Remix. He also produced a popular string of comedic monologues at GoodieBag.tv. He lives in Park Slope with his wife and an epileptic cat. [www.everythingisaremix.info]

NATE HARRISON is an artist and writer working at the intersection of intellectual property and cultural production. He is currently a critical studies fellow at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and teaches at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

DOOGIE HORNER is a comedian, writer, and graphic designer whose complex charts have appeared in Wired, Fast Company, and Boing Boing. He is the author of _Everything Explained Through Flowcharts_, and the host of the Ministry of Secret Jokes. [doogiehorner.com]

SARA TAKSLER directed and produced _TWISTED: A Balloonamentary_ and is a segment producer at The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. She can talk backwards, has a remarkable fake sneeze, and her favorite balloon animal is two birds kissing in a heart. [www.twistedballoondoc.com]

CHARLES STAR (HOST) is a lawyer sans portfolio and a stand-up comedian sans recognition who lives in Brooklyn with one each of wife, cat, and toddler.

Are you on facebook? Are you coming? Let us know

Enquiring minds want to know: What is Adult Education? I intended to PM you but realized some others might be uncertain. Is this comedy, improv, self-improvement, lectures, or what? We'd consider coming to one if we knew a bit more. Do you sit in chairs and listen politely, or is there a bar and tables?

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Enquiring minds want to know: What is Adult Education? I intended to PM you but realized some others might be uncertain. Is this comedy, improv, self-improvement, lectures, or what? We'd consider coming to one if we knew a bit more. Do you sit in chairs and listen politely, or is there a bar and tables?

We call it a useless lecture series. Not stand-up, but most of the lectures are written with a sense of humor about them. They don't have to be, though. The show on War had two of the most depressing lectures of the series.

You sit in chairs, if you can get a seat, AND there is a bar. The last two shows have sold out, which means about 120 people; about 70 get to sit.

There is absolutely no self-improvement.

You can see some of the lectures at [adulteducation.blip.tv]. I really need to edit and post more of them.

Thanks for asking.

ugarte
Wow. I haven't posted one of these in a while. The show is going very well again. You should join us.

Adult Ed presents "Remixed"
March 1 7:30PM
Union Hall
702 Union St. & 5th Ave., Park Slope
$5

DOOGIE HORNER, "U.S. Presidential Rumble: Wrestling with History"
If all the U.S. Presidents fought each other, who would win? (You may be thinking Benjamin Harrison, but he's eliminated in the second bracket of round four.)

NATE HARRISON, "Can I Get An Amen? A Political Economy Of Music Sampling."
Harrison examines a socioeconomic history of the ubiquitous Amen Break.

SARA TAKSLER, "School of Doc: How To Make Your Documentary Financially Successful"
Based on the multi-zillion dollar success of her documentary, TWISTED: A Balloonamentary, Taksler reveals how to make your film marketable.

KIRBY FERGUSON, "Influence, Appropriation, and Theft"
Ferguson, creator of the "Everything Is a Remix" video mini-series, surveys the continuum between genius and plagiarism.

Hosted by the inimitable CHARLES STAR

BIOS

KIRBY FERGUSON is a professional video producer and the creator of the video mini-series, Everything is a Remix. He also produced a popular string of comedic monologues at GoodieBag.tv. He lives in Park Slope with his wife and an epileptic cat. [www.everythingisaremix.info]

NATE HARRISON is an artist and writer working at the intersection of intellectual property and cultural production. He is currently a critical studies fellow at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and teaches at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

DOOGIE HORNER is a comedian, writer, and graphic designer whose complex charts have appeared in Wired, Fast Company, and Boing Boing. He is the author of _Everything Explained Through Flowcharts_, and the host of the Ministry of Secret Jokes. [doogiehorner.com]

SARA TAKSLER directed and produced _TWISTED: A Balloonamentary_ and is a segment producer at The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. She can talk backwards, has a remarkable fake sneeze, and her favorite balloon animal is two birds kissing in a heart. [www.twistedballoondoc.com]

CHARLES STAR (HOST) is a lawyer sans portfolio and a stand-up comedian sans recognition who lives in Brooklyn with one each of wife, cat, and toddler.

Are you on facebook? Are you coming? Let us know

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Bump for tonight.

I was really excited for a second because I thought it said Doogie Howser.

ADULT EDUCATION PRESENTS: "Cuisines of the World"
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 - 8 pm (doors at 7:30)
Union Hall in Park Slope
702 Union St. @ 5th Ave
$5 cover (buy tickets online here)


ROBERT REID, "Defining the Sandwich: A Survey in Truth"
Robert Reid considers this humble foodstuff—from its murky origins among celebratory, starved Trojans and its mocked namesake, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, to recent court cases debating what it means to be a sandwich.

CAITLIN MACRAE, "Andre and the Egg"
MacRae explores the impact of brunch on society at large, tackles the nuances of kitchen Spanish, and examines the fine art of crying in a walk-in fridge.

C.A.B. FREDERICKS, "Californian Cuisine"
Fredericks explains how the Donner Party ate (their way into our) hearts.

THE CONFINED NOMAD, "Eating the UN, A-Z, Without Leaving NYC"
Kara Van Malssen, James Power, and David Cianci share methods for finding cuisines from forgotten and unknown corners of the globe, all within the five boroughs (and maybe New Jersey).

With host CHARLES STAR



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New York-based, though Okie-raised, ROBERT REID is the US Travel Editor for Lonely Planet. He also blogs at reidontravel.com.

CAITLIN MACRAE has had many jobs and has lived in many places. She is currently a baker at Bubby's Pie Company. She lives in Greenpoint.

C.A.B. FREDERICKS is an editor, writer, occasional health professional, and disreputable gourmand. Born in San Francisco, he—like the city itself, in the words of the New York Times—"clings smugly to countercultural history." He smugly figures this includes eating people.

THE CONFINED NOMAD (confinednomad.com) crew have been eating their way through all the countries in the UN (and more!) since 2008. They are currently on Congo. Don't ask which one.

CHARLES STAR (HOST) is a lawyer sans portfolio and a stand-up comedian sans recognition who lives in Brooklyn with one each of wife, cat, and toddler.

Got an idea for an Adult Ed lecture? Email your pitch to brooklynite282 (at) gmail. Note: This is for lectures you want TO GIVE, not things you think would be interesting to hear.

It's been months since I've told you about a show but that's only because I don't think anyone has ever come because I posted the info here. (Beeeej doesn't count since he sees the show listings in a million places; he can't escape.)

No longer Brooklyn's Premier Useless Lecture Series, Adult Ed is now AMERICA'S Premier Useless Lecture Series. Starting in February, the show is coming above ground and crossing the river to make its Manhattan debut at Housing Works Bookstore. The show will be earlier and cheaper (free!) and we think it will be better than ever.

For the first show in a new venue, we are hearkening back to the theme of our first show back in 2008 with Miscellany, a collection of esoterica.

See you there. Details below.

ADULT EDUCATION PRESENTS: "Miscellany"
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 7 pm
Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
126 Crosby Street, between Houston and Prince
FREE
[adult-ed.net]
Hosted by Charles Star

DREW DERNAVICH: Call and Response
Dernavich will explain the the origins of American gospel and blues music via Jerry Seinfeld, John Tesh and Star Trek, which is pretty much the wrong approach.

BRENDAN I. KOERNER: The Closest Thing We Have To Thor
How a balding, round-shouldered Ukrainian managed to throw a 16-pound contraption farther than any other human—and why his record will stand forever.

GARY DREVITCH: What I've Learned From the NY Times Corner Office
Drevitch attempts to discover what it really takes to be a CEO.

COREY PANDOLPH: Effective Cures for Cabin Fever
From alcohol abuse to swimming in the icy waters of the Atlantic, humans of cold weather climates have searched for a cure to the mindf&$k that is the mid-winter blues. Pandolph will show how the Saranac Lake Winter Carnival is the apotheosis of this quest.

JILL STODDARD: How to Make Money From Occupy Wall Street
In 2008, the naturally-occurring variations in the world economy brought Jill's dream of shopping regularly at Whole Foods to a grinding halt. But a fevered vision while buying street fruit inspired her to create a simple program that has brought in millions and millions of (Chechen) dollars. And she is ready to share it with you!

BIOS

Drew Dernavich is a regular cartoonist for the New Yorker magazine (not that cartoonist - the other one). He tweets.

Gary Drevitch is the editor-in-chief of the website Grandparents.com, an author of nonfiction books for children, and a frequent magazine contributor.

Brendan I. Koerner is a contributing editor at WIRED and the author of “Now the Hell Will Start” and “Piano Demon.” He is currently working on a book about a spectacular 1970s heist and its decades-long aftermath, to be published by Crown next year. He blogs daily at Microkhan.com and tweets.

Corey Pandolph is a New Yorker cartoonist, syndicated cartoonist, MAD contributor, writer for DrinkatWork.com, and the creator of TOBY, Robot Satan. And he tweets.

Charles Star is sort of a comedian and sort of a lawyer. In addition to hosting Adult Education, he hosts the stand-up showcase "Pant-Hoot" at Lincoln Park Tavern on the second Thursday of the month. He lawyers at [REDACTED] and tweets.

Jill Stoddard is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn. She has been published in McSweeney's and Bankers and Tradesmen. She is currently writing a story about a married woman who falls in love with a man with jaundice. Also, she tweets.

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ugarte
It's been months since I've told you about a show but that's only because I don't think anyone has ever come because I posted the info here. (Beeeej doesn't count since he sees the show listings in a million places; he can't escape.)

No longer Brooklyn's Premier Useless Lecture Series, Adult Ed is now AMERICA'S Premier Useless Lecture Series. Starting in February, the show is coming above ground and crossing the river to make its Manhattan debut at Housing Works Bookstore. The show will be earlier and cheaper (free!) and we think it will be better than ever.

For the first show in a new venue, we are hearkening back to the theme of our first show back in 2008 with Miscellany, a collection of esoterica.

See you there. Details below.

ADULT EDUCATION PRESENTS: "Miscellany"
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 7 pm
Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
126 Crosby Street, between Houston and Prince
FREE
[adult-ed.net]
Hosted by Charles Star

DREW DERNAVICH: Call and Response
Dernavich will explain the the origins of American gospel and blues music via Jerry Seinfeld, John Tesh and Star Trek, which is pretty much the wrong approach.

BRENDAN I. KOERNER: The Closest Thing We Have To Thor
How a balding, round-shouldered Ukrainian managed to throw a 16-pound contraption farther than any other human—and why his record will stand forever.

GARY DREVITCH: What I've Learned From the NY Times Corner Office
Drevitch attempts to discover what it really takes to be a CEO.

COREY PANDOLPH: Effective Cures for Cabin Fever
From alcohol abuse to swimming in the icy waters of the Atlantic, humans of cold weather climates have searched for a cure to the mindf&$k that is the mid-winter blues. Pandolph will show how the Saranac Lake Winter Carnival is the apotheosis of this quest.

JILL STODDARD: How to Make Money From Occupy Wall Street
In 2008, the naturally-occurring variations in the world economy brought Jill's dream of shopping regularly at Whole Foods to a grinding halt. But a fevered vision while buying street fruit inspired her to create a simple program that has brought in millions and millions of (Chechen) dollars. And she is ready to share it with you!

BIOS

Drew Dernavich is a regular cartoonist for the New Yorker magazine (not that cartoonist - the other one). He tweets.

Gary Drevitch is the editor-in-chief of the website Grandparents.com, an author of nonfiction books for children, and a frequent magazine contributor.

Brendan I. Koerner is a contributing editor at WIRED and the author of “Now the Hell Will Start” and “Piano Demon.” He is currently working on a book about a spectacular 1970s heist and its decades-long aftermath, to be published by Crown next year. He blogs daily at Microkhan.com and tweets.

Corey Pandolph is a New Yorker cartoonist, syndicated cartoonist, MAD contributor, writer for DrinkatWork.com, and the creator of TOBY, Robot Satan. And he tweets.

Charles Star is sort of a comedian and sort of a lawyer. In addition to hosting Adult Education, he hosts the stand-up showcase "Pant-Hoot" at Lincoln Park Tavern on the second Thursday of the month. He lawyers at [REDACTED] and tweets.

Jill Stoddard is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn. She has been published in McSweeney's and Bankers and Tradesmen. She is currently writing a story about a married woman who falls in love with a man with jaundice. Also, she tweets.