Monday, May 12th

Sleeping with the Enemy

How was it, dating the Chevron executive while lobbying for the EPA? Did fireworks go off when you, a bleeding heart liberal, found yourself partying with Ann Coulter? Perhaps you just saw the Julia Roberts movie and recall a dating nightmare of your own. If any of this rings true, don't miss our May show where six storytellers will enthrall you with their own tales of Sleeping with the Enemy!

DETAILS:

Cafe du Nord, 2170 Market Street, San Francisco

$12 admission

Advance tickets available at ticketweb.com

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

STORYTELLER BIOS:

Kelly Corrigan is a  Piedmont-based newspaper columnist and debut author of the highly-acclaimed memoir,  The Middle Place. She is a contributor to magazines including O, The Oprah Winfrey Magazine, Good Housekeeping and Glamour. She launched CircusofCancer.org , a website that teaches friends and family of cancer patients how to love someone through treatment.

Dr. Debbie Findling is an educator, writer and activist. She officiates at wedding ceremonies; has taught inmates serving life sentences at San Quentin State Prison; and has guest lectured at numerous universities. Debbie is Deputy Director of the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund, a San Francisco-based philanthropic foundation that awards $60 million in grants annually; founding director of Tikea, an innovative professional development initiative for educators of teens; and for 10 years was an educator on the international March of the Living program in Poland and Israel. She has appeared on KQED radio and KRON television and has published widely. She is also the food writer for The Potrero View. Debbie founded Kavod Caterers, which has been feeding over 100 homeless people in Denver, Colorado each week since 1987. She lives with her husband and daughter in San Francisco in a house that's on the ABC TV show, Eli Stone

Greg Gaston is a writer, musician and old-school slacker who came to SF in 1984 after spending 4 years at sea with the US Navy.   He has taught English in Spain, parked cars for the mob in North Beach and was once on academic probation at City College of SF.  He is currently the director of a music and recording industry program that teaches young people how to make it in the music business. Greg currently lives closer to the ocean than he ever has before.

Mary Samson began her advertising sales career in 1992 in the SF Weekly classifieds department. She typed in personal ads, wrote receipts to escorts, and once posed for a 900# ad photo, holding a phone as "Candy". Mary has 15 years experience in ad sales including six years in ad sales for The Wall Street Journal where she was a top 10 sales-person worldwide . Mary celebrates sweet 16 years in San Francisco this year after escaping Lincoln, Nebraska where she remained for far too long as a non-traditional student at the University of Nebraska. Mary currently works at the Bay Guardian, sometimes acts in community theatre, and is writing a solo show with the help of the Wool Street Society

Bucky Sinister is the author of "All Blacked Out & Nowhere to Go". He came of age in San Francisco's art scene, where corporate fashion was the last thing one would be seen wearing. But when a paycheck was waved in his face, he had to choose between poverty and selling out to a pretentious clothing label with deep
pockets. His debut comedy CD, What Happens In Narnia,
Stays In Narnia is out now on Talent Moat Records

More storyteller bios coming soon!