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Special Event: Benefit

Progressive Reading Series 3: Benefit to Save Rent Control

When

Saturday Mar 15, 2008 (7pm)

Where

The Make-Out Room

3225 22nd St

415.647.2888

Price

$10 - 20 sliding scale

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The Make-Out Room says…

Maybe politics in this country would be in a better place if people drank more, read more, and had more of a good time. A simplistic argument, yes, but it was this philosophy that lifted the Progressive Reading Series off the ground. Tonight, the literati are out in force for intellectual fun and a cause: saving rent control in California. The lineup includes local superstar Amy Tan, punk-rock poet and comedian Bucky Sinister, Lebanese writer Rabih Alameddine, and novelist Jerry Stahl — whose career-igniting memoir, Permanent Midnight (and its 1998 Ben Stiller-starring film adaptation), delves into the harsh yet hilarious realities of drug addiction and television writing.