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"A crowd of rapt listeners — old enough to drink, young enough to look good in low-slung pants, the descriptive word flung around was "scenesters" — gathered at the Cafe du Nord Monday night for "The Starf— Show," the latest in Porch Light's monthly series of conversations."

Leah Garchik, The In Crowd,
San Francisco Chronicle

 

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Photo by Adam Savage

 

Contacts:

Arline Klatte 415.571.0998

Beth Lisick 510.593.1077

email: aklatte@sbcglobal.net

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Past Storytellers

 

Dog and Pony Show (10/12)

Michael Ian Black
Tamar Adler
Lyrics Born
Caitlin Myer

Tom Rhodes
April Whitney

 

Tag Team Double Dare (9/12)

The Kitchen Sisters
Kirk Read and Ed Wolf
James Reichmuth and Rob Baedeker
Anneke Swinehart and Sean Kelly
Boots Riley and Django........... Carol Queen and Robert Lawrence

 

Shine On You Crazy Diamond Ten Year Anniversary (7/12)

Anthony Bedard
Rob Baedeker
Kelly Beardsley
Eric Shea
Adelle McElveen

Kyle Metzner

Beth Pickens

Cassie J. Sneider

Ben McCoy

Bucky Sinister

Jack Boulware

Isaac Fitzgerald

Dominic Riley

Anna Seregina

Mollena Williams

Vero Majano

Malcolm Margolin

David Grosof

Andrea Michaels

Tamim Ansary

Bertie Pearson

Sonny Smith

Virgil Shaw

 

California Dreaming (6/12)

Anthony Bedard
Michael Capozzola
John Law
Judi Oyama
Janet Varney

 

I Do: The Wedding Show (6/12)

Clint Catalyst
Eugene Ashton-Gonzalez

Cheryl Cohen Greene
Denise Hoffner
Barbara Berman
Aimee Page
Paul Myers

I Surrender! (5/12)

Heather Gold
Chris von Sneidern
Dennis Collinson
Les Milton
Mackenzie Green
Mollena Williams

Kitchen Confidential (4/12)

Dontaye Ball
Stephanie Lucianovic
Samin Nosrat
Horehound Stillpoint
Anthony Strong
Rick Victorino

Law and Order

(3/12)

Maurice Caldwell

Matt Gonzalez
Renee Paradis

Kirk Read
Vaughn Walker
Kevin Wofsy

 

Don't Call me Retard (11/10)

Francis Kohler
Katie Gorman
Whitman Donaldson
Paul Moshammer
Will Skinker

Hollywood Hell (10/10)

Exene Cervenka
Michael Tolkin
Martin Cruz Smith
Kristen Tracy
Jack Boulware
Joyce Maynard
Jill Soloway

Kitchen Confidential (6/10)

Dawn Agnew
Cecilia Chiang
Saul Nadler
Pascal Rigo
Nikki Silva
Jeremy Townsend
Leslie Harlib (music)

The Last Taboo: Stories About Money (5/10)

Novella Carpenter
Ramona Emerson
David Grosof
David Moss
Tim Redmond
Jenn Suttlemyre

Behind the Scenes: True Stories from the Frontiers of International Filmmaking (5/10)

Claudia Gonson
Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio
Jonn Herschend
Che Sandoval
Kaspar Astrup Schroder

Urban Legends (4/10)

Kelly Beardsley
Wilkes Bashford
Anthony Bedard
Willie Brown
Frank Portman

Beware: Stories of Danger (3/10)

Marc Capelle
Charlie Haas
Sarah Gina Jones
Kari Kiernan
Johnny Lubow
Alex Martins
Emily Richmond
Helen Renaut (music)

La Petit Mort: The Sex Show (2/10)

Dixie de la Tour
Stephen Elliott
Mary Pols
Kirk Read
Arisa White
Bart Davenport (music)

I Quit! (1/10)

Kamau Bell
Willy Claflin
Daniel LeVesque
Jennifer Lou
Kyle Metzner
Suki O'Kane

The Holiday Dream Show - Toy! (12/09)

Anna Challet
Mary Samson
Adam Savage
Sara Seinberg
Eric Shea
Sonny Smith (music)

Family Portrait: Who Are These People? (11/09)

Brian Coppedge
Carolyn Doyle
River Fabiani
Rodney Fong
Earl Johnson
Vero Majano
Ben McCoy

Punk Rockers Spill Their Guts (10/09)

Jack Boulware
Lynn Breedlove
Oran Canfield
Chicken John
John Geek
Jesse Luscious
Kareim McKnigh,
Hank Rank
Rozz Rezabek
Bucky Sinister
Anna Joy Springer
Johnny Strike
Silke Tudor
Penelope Houston (music)

Behind the Scenes: The Backstory Show (9/09)

Peter Finch
Graham Leggat
Haining Luan
Joseph Mattson
Nina Thorsen
Bana Witt
Angelina Moysov & Tom Ayres of Persephone's Bees (music)

Lucky Number 7 (7/09)

Rob_Baedeker
Anthony Bedard
Lynn Breedlove
Christy Chan
Scott Kravitz
Joyce Maynard
Linda Pasek
Loretta Lynch (music)

On the Road (6/09)

Jeff DeMark
Ali Liebegott
Naomi Neal
Lorraine Palmer
Sonny Smith (music & story)
Ed Wolf

 

 

 

 

 

Pants on Fire: A Show About Lies (5/09)

Blag Dahlia
Jennifer Longo
Andy Raskin
James Reichmuth
Sean Uyehara
Ann Wintroub
Chris von Sneidern (music)

Kitchen Confidential (4/09)

Ron Henggeler
Diane Karagienakos
Scott Kravitz
Richie Nakano
Stephanie Rosenbaum
Kristin Sobditch
Craig Stoll

Dealbreakers (3/09)

Christy Chan
George Chen
Stephen Elliott
Linda Pasek
Lynn Ruth Miller
Christie Ward
Ellen Sussman

Evolve: Crossings, Cataclysms, and Mutations (2/09)

Charlie Anders
Lynn Breedlove
Ken Goldberg
Tim Parsa
Robert Siegel

The New ME Stories of Reinvention (1/09)

Kelly Beardsley
Derrick Brown
Jesse De La Cruz
Rebecca Lynn Eisenberg
Jenn Suttlemyre
Kurt Thomas

The Holiday Dream Show:
All That Glitters is Not Gold (12/08)

Kari Kiernan
Sylvia Kwan
Andrew McKinley
Steve Muller
Chuck Prophet
Mary Saint Mary

Friends On All Fours

Mikel Delgado
Jeanne Marie Acceturo
Martin Kiff
Christie Ward
Sean Uyehara

 

Rock Bottom

Nate Denver
Leyna Noel
Joshua Raoul Brody
Eric Shea
Sylvie Simmons
Andy Raskin

 

Family: The Greatest Show on Earth

Will Franken
Ben Fong Torres
Andrea Michaels
Oscar Villalon

The Politics Show

Jack Boulware
Stephen Elliott
Merle Kessler
Fiona Ma
Lynn Ruth Miller
Mary Spicer

I Quit

Frank Andrick
Parker Gibbs
Linda Mabry
Reed Kirk Rahlmann
Mindy Ross
Happy Sanchez

Utilities Included:
The Roommate Show

Kevin Avery
Kelly Beardsley
Freddie Brooks
Joe Loya
Alvin Orloff
Lani Silver

Brushes With Fame: The Starfucker Show

Frank Andrick
Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
Anthony Bedard
Mark Ewert
Stanlee Gatti
Dorka Keehn

Caught in a Trap

Tom Duffy
Laura Fraser
Randy Knox
Kelly Kegger
Eric Shea
Wammo

Cleaning House

John Birrer
Donovan Corliss
Heather Gold
Jody Jock
Bucky Sinister
Kevin Smokler

This Means War

Robert Alvarado
Bruce B. Brugmann
Jayne Kelly deLopez
Carole Leigh
Lisa Margonelli
Alison Nowak

Twisted Sisters, Funny Uncles and Mommies Dearest: Why We Love Family

Sylvia Harper
Miles Kurosky
Hai Ning Luan
Kate Moses
Barbara Ramsey
Jan Richman

Creepy

Kitty Burns
Linda Hagood
Keith Knight
Richard Radcliffe
Bill Tolliver
Jan Van Stavern
Dale Suess

On the Road

Tamim Ansary
Marshall Ehlers
Noah Hawley
Cameron Tuttle
Carol Queen
Noe Venable

Love is a Battlefield

Xandra Castleton
Tara Jepsen
Shaun Landry
Jonathan Moscone
Mindy Ross
David Sterry

Up All Night: Stories from Dusk to Dawn

Marc Capelle
Lisa Margonelli
Tim Redmond
Ron Roth
Lee Vilensky
Nina Wise

Kitchen Confidential

Jean Field
Elgy Gillespie
Joe Loya
Douglas Monsalud
Steve Muller
Grace Ann Walden

The One That Got Away

Nate Denver
Jane Ganahl
Matt Gonzalez
Steve Hutchinson
Joe Loya
Shar Rednour