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

[ugarte]

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

[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.

[Beeeej]

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.

[ugarte]

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

[ugarte]

Tonight!

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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.

[ugarte]

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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[quote ugarte]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.[/quote]

[ugarte]

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.

[ugarte]

For those interested, this is the lecture that I did at the May show:
http://www.archive.org/details/AdultEducationWorstToys

[ugarte]

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?

[ugarte]

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14 at 7:30PM
Adult Education at Union Hall "Hunting and Gathering"
http://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."

http://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 http://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 http://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

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]

[quote 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

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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.

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[quote ugarte][quote 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

[/quote]
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.[/quote]
Day of show bump.

[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

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.