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Sunday May 20th 10am-6pm
San Rafael, CA

Candidates must:
Be over 18 & Provide your own steampunk outfit

Extras will receive:
Credit in the film + on IMDB
An invitation to the Bay Area Premiere screening at the Castro Theatre in November 2012.

Email a full-body shot of you in your steampunk outfit, your age, and your phone number to...

True Life Stories told without notes or scripts.
Because life is entertaining.

The SHOUT is a monthly live event featuring several invited storytellers telling amazing but true 10 minute stories from their lives. Interspersed with these raconteurs, audience members have the opportunity to put their name in the hat in hopes of being picked for one...

MiDNiTES FOR MANiACS presents
Friday March 09th, 2012
"GRUNGE LOVE" Triple Bill

Come celebrate "THOSE DARN NiNTiES" with three films filled with wandering slackers, bundled up in flannels, bedheaded and sporting some seriously runny eyeliner. All three films were dismissed and were even hated upon their original releases, yet...

Scary Cow is proud to announce our 16th Film Festival at the Castro Theatre featuring Bay Area made films!

You can now purchase tickets at http://screening.scarycow.com/

Please join us on March 3rd, 2012, to see a program of short films made by local San Francisco filmmakers. You'll be asked to vote for the best films and those films with...

12O MINUTES PRESENTS:
WHITE RING AND JAMES FERRARO LIVE!!!

$10 limited discount presales:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/229824
$15 door

WHITE RING
https://www.facebook.com/pages/WHITE-RING/52614102360

White Ring is the NYC based duo Bryan Kurkimilis and Kendra Malia and they make creepy soundscapes centered around Houston style Hip-Hop...

Rudy Rucker the Elder - reading from the Big AHA
Rudy Rucker the Younger - Punk ISP
Mike Estee - Three Laws of Paper Robotics
Liam Holt - Syneseizure

http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotsf/archive/201202/

Snacks from @GrilledCheezGuy

RE/Search books available for sale

MC Jonathan Foote

FREE ADMISSION but donations to Langton Labs appreciated

San Francisco Bookstore and Chocolate Crawl: Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012

Spend the day exploring San Francisco's amazing independent bookstores and eating chocolate
When: Sunday Feb. 26, from noon to 6:30 PM
How much: Free, but you're encouraged to buy some books

Update: For everyone who's asked, you can also bike. Or take the #33 bus,...

Emerging from the ashes of our second-annual LA venue fiasco, we have finally locked in a new location and date for our 3rd Edwardian Ball Los Angeles... and it's COMING RIGHT UP!

We will be returning on Sunday, February 19th -- please note this is a LONG WEEKEND -- and we can't wait to share this year's amazing art and performances...

Check out our trailer for this event! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm9lN5IF9oQ

Please join us on February 19th, 2012, as we celebrate Scary Cow turning 5! We have selected some our favorite shorts for a fun evening of Bay Area Independent Films not to be missed.

You can now purchase tickets at http://screening.scarycow.com/

Attendees are...

February 10th, 2012
MiDNiTES FOR MANiACS presents
"I'M BLACK & I'M PROUD" Triple Feature

7:30pm - I'M GONNA GiT YOU SUCKA (1988)
Written & Directed by Keenan Ivory Wayans
Containing: Keenen Ivory Wayan, Bernie Casey, Ja'net Dubois, Isaac Hayes, Jim Brown, Antonio Fargas, John Vernon, Kadeem Hardison, Damon...

Please join us in celebrating the 200th Anniversary of Dickens' birth at The Charles Dickens Bicentennial Ball. After a vintage ballroom dance lesson at 7pm, the evening begins at 8pm with a special theatrical performance by Charles Dickens (Robert Young) complemented by select performances by Miss Jenny Lind and members of the Peerless Music...

This is the night of The Ball itself, a slightly more formal affair where the games, rides, cabaret acts, and steam machinery are cleared away to make room for a costumed floor of ballroom dance, roaming performances, and the tales and characters of Edward Gorey brought to life on stage and throughout.

Each year, in the depths of the night,...

The Edwardian World's Faire
Jan 20, 2012 @ The Grand at the Regency Center

Tickets: http://tickets.sonicliving.com/event/3338836/fb-tickets

Questions or corrections?:
http://apps.facebook.com/sonicliving/?ab&corrections_id=3338836

The 12th Annual Edwardian Ball, Rosin Coven, Vau de Vire Society, Jill Tracy, Kinetic Steam Works, Dark Garden, Fou Fou HA!, Delachaux, Fact50, Cyclecide, and much more!
Jan 20, 2012 @ The Grand at the Regency Center

Tickets: http://tickets.sonicliving.com/event/3338837/fb-tickets

dark garden
Listen: http://sonicliving.com/listen/466462
Shows:...

Individual tickets are available for $15 in advance at http://www.sundance.org/festival/tickets/registration/

In a special Houdini-tribute edition of this storytelling event, Porchlight presents a cast of magicians, mentalists, and spiritualist debunkers, who brave the audience to confess first-hand accounts of brushes with magic. Program includes a special magic show by Stallion.

Storytellers include:

James "the Amazing" Randi, professional ...

As founder and librarian of the storied Internet Archive (deemed impossible by all when he started it in 1996), Brewster Kahle has practical experience behind his universalist vision of access to every bit of knowledge ever created, for all time, ever improving.

He will speak to questions such as these:

Can we make a distributed web of books that...

2011 is our 33rd year! This, the original Great Dickens Christmas Fair, runs weekends including the Friday after Thanksgiving! SHARE and INVITE GUESTS, friends and family! Make it your virgin voyage to Londontown, or join us here time and again, won't you? http://www.dickensfair.com/general

Women 2.0 Startup Weekend will take place November 18 – 20, 2011 at The Hatchery in San Francisco, CA.

Both men and women are invited to get your ticket for Women 2.0 Startup Weekend now - developers and designer tickets left!

More info: http://www.women2.org/women2-startup-weekend-2011-san-francisco-announcement/

Register here:...

Order tickets via Eventbrite:
http://gitmissrepresentation-efbevent.eventbrite.com

Girls in Tech is hosting a screening of "Miss Representation" -- A documentary film - by Jennifer Siebel Newsom - about breaking through stereotypes of women in the media to ultimately afford women everywhere more leadership opportunities.. Featuring...

Join Women 2.0 this November for our latest Founder Friday!

The event takes place on Friday, November 4th from 6-9pm at the Press Club in San Francisco. Founder Friday is open to all levels of female entrepreneurs, both aspiring and established and is free to those who attend.

Hosting this month are:
Sumaya Kazi, Founder of Sumazi
Priya Haji,...

Join Fast Company for a day of thoughtful, provocative and uplifting conversation.

Frontline leaders from a variety of industries will share progressive thinking and engage in candid conversations – what went right – what went wrong – and more importantly, what’s up next?

Confirmed speakers include:
Mark Pincus, Founder, CEO & Chief...

Monaco is 2.2 km sq - it has 33,000 inhabitants of whom 84% are foreign born tax exiles. There are around 500 police officers in Monaco - external security is provided by France. The only real standing army of which to speak are the 100 bodyguards provided for the royal household.

The facts are simple the Philip Greens of this world (or rather his...