Friday, July 11th

6th Anniversary Show: The Seven Deadly Sins

Come join us for an evening of immoral tales centered on capital vices and cardinal sin.

Check out authors Jack Boulware on ENVY and Kirk Read on LUST, Webby Awards founder Tiffany Shlain on PRIDE, Kasper Hauser's Rob Baedeker on GREED, writer Sarah Gina Jones on GLUTTONY, crossword puzzle maker Andrea Carla Michaels on WRATH, and musician Eric Shea on SLOTH.

With live music by The Ian Fays (www.myspace.com/theianfays).

DETAILS:

Note venue change for our anniversary show:

Swedish American Hall (upstairs from Cafe du Nord), 2174 Market Street, San Francisco

$15 admission

Advance tickets available at ticketweb.com

Doors open at 7 p.m., show at 8 p.m.

STORYTELLER BIOS:

Rob Baedeker is a member of the San Francisco-based comedy group Kasper Hauser, authors of the catalog parody SkyMaul: Happy Crap You Can Buy from a Plane.

Jack Boulware is an author, journalist, and co-founder of Litquake who writes regularly for a variety of publications. He is the author of two nonfiction social history books, Sex American Style and San Francisco Bizarro. His newest book, an oral history of Bay Area punk rock, will be published by Penguin in 2009.

Sarah Gina Jones has been scraping by in the Bay Area for over a decade. Previously hailing from the suburbs of Chicago, she has moved approximately nine times and is on her way to Oakland next. Inspired by the literary pulse of San Francisco in the mid-nineties, Sarah fell in with Sister Spit, an all girls spoken word movement that made its first national tour in 1997. Since then Sarah has been working on and taking breaks from her novel, "The Thirst of Little Salt Creek". Sarah founded the absurdist Passion Dance Troupe in 2003, which includes a manifesto (which can be read on her myspace page). Currently, Sarah Gina Jones makes delicious soup for a living and is taking classes to launch her debut career in Nutritional Sciences. She is not very good at Guitar Hero but earns her self esteem by making people laugh. Despite the onset of her late-blooming adulthood, Sarah cannot resist a good opportunity for a pratfall.

Andrea Carla Michaels is a writer, namer, crossword puzzle constructor/Scrabble lady who lost on "Jeopardy!" but won a motorhome on "Wheel of Fortune". She is both a former "Dating Game" chaperone and a recovering stand-up comedian.

Eric Shea is a musician and music writer living in the heart of the Mission district. He sings in the local rock band Hot Lunch and he used to front Parchman Farm and Mover. He's also a shameless self-promoter who organizes the annual Gram Parsons Tribute Concerts at the Great American Music Hall (this year's is on Saturday, July 19th).  When not playing shows, writing album reviews or interviewing bands, he enjoys beers, barbecues and carving the bowl at the new San Francisco skatepark.

Honored by Newsweek as one of the "Women Shaping the 21st Century", Tiffany Shlain is founder of The Webby Awards, co-founder of International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences and an award-winning filmmaker. Her films include The Tribe, and Life, Liberty & The Pursuit of Happiness, and have been selected to screen at over 100 festivals including Sundance and Tribeca, and honored with more than twenty awards. Tiffany lectures worldwide on the Internet and her filmmaking. She is the director of The Moxie Institute, an organization that creates film, books and theater experiences around social issues using emerging technologies. She is working on a new feature documentary, Connected, and a hybrid lecture performance for Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. She is an Aspen Institute Henry Crown Fellow.