ADULT EDUCATION PRESENTS: "HOW TO"
Tuesday, February 3, 2009 - 8 pm (doors at 7:30)
Union Hall in Park Slope
702 Union St. @ 5th Ave
$5 cover

Tonight we host a variety of talks that speak to the human drive to learn, to do for self, to create, to have something explained in glorious photographic detail...

PAUL LUKAS, "How to Catch a Mouse"
Paul Lukas will explore the age-old question of how to catch a mouse by examining the vagaries of mousetrap packaging.

CARRIE McLAREN, "How to Raise an Ape in Your Home"
Drawing on her collection of memoirs by people who have raised apes in their homes, Carrie McLaren will discuss strategies for rearing chimps and gorillas as part of human families.

ELIOT GLAZER, "How to Interpret a Long Island High School Yearbook"
Eliot Glazer discusses Long Island's "bizarre, penultimate cross-section" as captured in his high school yearbook, tracing stereotypes from the Faux-Mafioso D'bag to Extreme Jew to Long Island Railroad Skank.

MIKKI HALPIN, "How to Be a Superfan"

All hosted by Charles Star.

SPEAKER BIOS

Eliot Glazer is a writer and comedian who performs all over New York. He is an editor at Urlesque, Buzzfeed, and The Apiary, and co-produces the long-running variety show "High School Talent Show," which is now in its second year at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater.

Mikki Halpin is a freelance writer in Brooklyn. The author of three books, she writes about politics, culture, and human nature for magazines like Glamour, Health, Black Book, and Modern Painter. She is currently at work on a book abouf fans and fan culture.

Paul Lukas has made a career out of deconstructing the overlooked details of everyday life in excruciating detail. He currently works as a senior writer for ESPN.com, where his "Uni Watch" column is the nation's foremost (okay, only) column devoted to sports uniform design, and is also a member of the Forewords, a lecture-and-slideshow act that recently opened several shows for the rock band the Magnetic Fields. He has a near-pathological distaste for the color purple.

Carrie McLaren curates Adult Education and is the founder of Monkeywire, an e-news service focused on monkeys and apes. Her book, Ad Nauseam: a Survivor's Guide to Consumer Culture will be published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux in June.

Charles Star is a lawyer sans portfolio and a stand-up comedian sans recognition who lives in Brooklyn with his excellent wife, his awesome cat, and a newborn baby genius.