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How's Your News Thursday, February 21 7:30pm - 11:00pm $10 ----> Event Description <----------------------------------------------- Great Bay Area event � Arthur Bradford�s How�s Your News? Team meets San Francisco�s Youth Speaks in an unforgettable night or film, music, poetry. Many special guests. How�s Your News? is coming to San Francisco in a benefit for Youth Speaks, cosponsored by McSweeney�s and Zoetrope All-Story Text: How�s Your News is a documentary featuring a team of news reporters with mental and physical disabilities who journey across America conducting interviews with everyone they meet. The documentary was directed by Arthur Bradford, frequent McSwys contributor and author of the short story collection Dogwalker. The entire cast and crew will be on hand at Cellspace, at 18th and Bryant, on Feb 21st to present the film and answer questions afterward. As a very special treat, The How�s Your News Band will perform original songs from the film's soundtrack after the show. Not to be missed! �A knockout -- hilarious and heartwarming" -- The Boston Globe "See this movie any chance you get'"- Aint It Cool News "I've never used the words "tribute to the human spirit" without sarcasm, but there's no other way to describe how the performers' love for what they did made them so radiant, made us all clutch the T-shirts Bradford threw from the stage and pull them over whatever we were wearing -- fashion be damned -- and made sociological analysis seem giddily irrelevant. On our way home we couldn't wait for the morning, to tell everybody." �- Toronto Globe and Mail The coming of How�s Your News? -- which had been planned many months ago -- coincides with a great dip in grants and tax-based benefits for San Francisco nonprofits, including Youth Speaks, a fantastic program that brings spoken-word poetry into city schools. We�re hoping to combine these two interests into an unforgettable night. Many of us at McSweeney�s have seen the film, which is truly beautiful and, to aptly use an overused word, inspirational. But to see both the movie and its stars live -- which many of us did in Amsterdam (where they shared a stage and microphone with David Byrne, among others) -- is something else entirely. It�s a wildly entertaining show. Add to this three Youth Speaks poets, and many Bay Area McSwys contributors and representatives of McSwys and Zoetrope, including our own M.R., and you have an event you should not miss. Cost per attendee is $10, but you may pay more if you wish. All proceeds will go to Youth Speaks, which needs to raise many thousands of dollars very soon in order to avoid cutting staff and programs. For more information about Youth Speaks go to youthspeaks.com. For more info about How�s Your News? check out howsyournews.com. ----> Venue Info <------------------------------------------------------ Cellspace 2050 Bryant Street San Francisco http://www.cellspcae.org ----> Additional Info <------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 415-642-5684 http://www.howsyournews.com ----> The Squid List Admin <-------------------------------------------- The Squid List, a tentacle of Laughing Squid http://www.laughingsquid.org/squidlist/ To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your preferences: http://lists.laughingsquid.org/mailman/listinfo/squidlist/ Frequently Asked Questions & Submission Guidelines Squid List FAQ: http://www.laughingsquid.org/squidlist/faq.html ----> The Odeon Bar <--------------------------------------------------- Our little clubhouse in The Mission The Odeon Bar 3223 Mission Street @ Valencia, San Francisco http://www.odeonbar.com ----> Islais Creek Arts Group <----------------------------------------- Help save The Islais Creek Arts Group and stop the Illinois Street Bridge project: http://www.islaiscreek.org ----> Laughing Squid <-------------------------------------------------- Laughing Squid http://www.laughingsquid.org Underground art and culture from San Francisco and beyond! ----> Web Hosting <----------------------------------------------------- Laughing Squid Web Hosting http://www.laughingsquid.net Laughing Squid is an independently owned and operated web hosting service that specializes in web hosting for artists, individuals, non-profits and small organizations. We are here for those website owners and developers who often get lost in the faceless void of corporate web hosting. Copyright (c) 2002 Laughing Squid LLC. All rights reserved.
