I got this ultra intriguing email about an event at Union Hall.
Would you kindly consider listing us as a Park Slope event?
Adult Ed is a new monthly lecture series devoted to making useless
knowledge somewhat less useless. Each month is devoted to a given
theme, and 4 speakers will address some aspect
of that theme using visual aids.
ADULT ED PRESENTS: ANIMALS & SIN
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Union Hall in Park Slope
702 Union St. @ 5th Ave
718.638.4400
8 pm – $5
| Daniel Radosh: The Quest to Develop Kosher Bacon
| Mikki Halpin: Sexual Violence in the Domestic Pug
| Jeffrey Kastner: A Brief History of Animals on Trial
| Carrie McLaren: TBA
| Hosted by Charles Star
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
(http://www.cabinetmagazine.org) 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 founder of Monkeywire (monkeywire.org), editor
of Stay Free! magazine, and a local blogger (hawthornestreet.com). Her
writing has appeared in SPIN, Village Voice, Newsday, Mother Jones,
TONY, and other publications.
DANIEL RADOSH ( http://www.radosh.net/ ) is a contributing editor at
Radar. His writing has appeared in McSweeney’s, The New Yorker, The
New York Times, and more publications than we can count.
CHARLES STAR (HOST) ( http://myspace.com/Charles_Star ) is a
Brooklyn-based comedian who has written for the Onion News Network and Stay Free!
magazine. Charles hosts the comedy show Pant-Hoot on the third Tuesday
of every month at Magnetic Field.
—
Carrie McLaren
tel: 347 715 2013
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blog II: http://www.hawthornestreet.com
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