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December 11, 2001:Merle Kessler aka Ian Shoales and Holiday Belly DancingThis is one NCSWA dinner you don’t want to miss! We’ve lined up an evening of great food, door prizes, belly dancing, and a hilarious look back at the ‘90s with Merle Kessler, aka Ian Shoales, radio commentator, co-creator of Dr. Science, and founding member of Duck’s Breath Mystery Theater. Leave your worries at the door and enter another world. Dine in splendor, surrounded by pillows and gleaming brass tables, under a red-hued Sultan’s tent, while you catch up with old friends. Enjoy the musicians and belly dancer, then decide if you’ve got the guts to try it yourself. Then hang on to your hats as mile-a-minute sneer artist Ian Shoales takes you down memory lane, talking about the good, the bad and the excesses of the nineties. Bring your spouse, significant other, partner, friend, date, or just some guy you met at the Safeway. You don’t have to be a science writer to enjoy this evening! WHERE: Pasha Restaurant (Moroccan, Turkish, and Middle Eastern cuisine). Pasha is at 1516 Broadway in San Francisco. WHEN: Tuesday, December 11, 6 pm to 9:30 pm SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
Ian Shoales is a pen name for Merle Kessler. First heard on NPR's "All Things Considered," in 1979, Shoales has since been featured on NPR's "Morning Edition," ABC's "Nightline," and online in Salon Magazine. His commentaries also air weekly on ABC's overnight news program, "World News Now." Mr. Kessler is also a playwright, screenwriter, fiction writer, and lyricist. He co-created Dr. Science (with Dan Coffey), and is a founding member of Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2000. His talk will be a kind of look back at the nineties ‘til now.... concentrating on the dot.com boom (and the gadgets-- cell phones! videophones! thin clients! dedicated servers! dead platforms! -- and lingo thereof, and how quickly outmoded that all became), with sidelines into the evolution of dinosaurs in pop culture, and theme parks, and aliens in UFOs (from friendly green men to disturbing gray men), the evolution of the Internet from Internet to Information Highway to World Wide Web to e-commerce to ---?, also the decline of space exploration and the end of history/physics (or so it was rumored) with sideways forays into celebrity worship (and the evolution of that), Mahir, dancing hampsters (stet), and the increasing role of unfounded rumor in the formation of world views.... MENU:
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TO RESERVE SPACE: Make your reservations now! We need a head count by Wednesday November 28th! Send a check (made out to NCSWA) for $25 per person ($15 for students) to: Bob Sanders If you want the vegetarian entrée, please let us know when you send in your check. NCSWA is subsidizing some costs of the dinner to help make this evening special. HOW TO GET THERE: Pasha Restaurant is on Broadway, between Van Ness and Polk in the Russian Hill section of San Francisco. Street parking is extremely difficult, but the restaurant does have valet parking ($10). The Hyde Street Cable Car runs two blocks away (get off at Broadway). Many MUNI buses run up and down Van Ness, including the 47, 49, and 42 buses. BART riders should get off at the Civic Center station, walk three blocks down Grove St. to Van Ness and catch a bus there (heading toward Fisherman’s Wharf). CARPOOLING: |
