All Event Books 10% Off Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist Marisa Handler   - Thursday, March 1   - 7:00 PM At New College Center for Education and Social Action 777 Valencia St. How are protests organized? What are affinity groups? What do you do if you and your friends turn the corner and come face to face with a line of armed, baton wielding police? Loyal to the Sky is the story of Handler’s life on the front lines of the global justice movement, and her coming of age in apartheid South Africa, America, Israel, and other countries across the globe. Co-sponsored by Global Exchange, Amazon Watch, Bitch Magazine, and Modern Times Bookstore. top of page Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes T Cooper   - Saturday, March 3   - 6:30 PM At New College of California, 777 Valencia St T COOPER is the author of the novels Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes, a Los Angeles Times bestseller, and Some of the Parts, a LAMBDA literary award finalist. T is also editor of a politically-minded collection of stories entitled A Fictional History of the United States with Huge Chunks Missing. T's work has recently appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Style Magazine, The Believer, OUT magazine, Poets & Writers, and Punk Planet—among several other publications and anthologies. top of page SkyMaul: Happy Crap You Can Buy from a Plane The Kasper Hauser Comedy Group   - Tuesday, March 6   - 7:00 PM The Kasper Hauser Comedy Group will offer a multimedia presentation of material from their new catalog parody, SkyMaul (“Wicked funny”—San Francisco Chronicle) as well as a behind-the-scenes look at product entries that were deemed too risqué for publication. The group will talk about sketch comedy and parody writing, and their attempt to break the Guinness Book world record for throwing a checker the length of the Queen Mary. top of page Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace Hosted by Joe Lamb   - Wednesday, March 7   - 7:00 PM The contributors to Maxine Hong Kingston’s Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace are combat vets, medics, peace activists, and survivors of violence. They will read stories and poems that they wrote inspired by the motto: Tell the truth. top of page Seafood Workers Justice Campaign! SITTIM Seafood Workers   - Thursday, March 8   - 7:30 PM Thousands of women seafood workers in the Baja maquiladora industry endure 12 hour night shifts of cleaning squid to earn 2 U.S. cents a pound. These workers and their supporters formed El Sindicato Independiente de Trabajadores y Trabajadoras de la Industria Maquila (SITTIM—the Independent Union of Workers in the Maquiladora Industry), the only independent union in Baja California. Join us as these courageous women leaders from SITTIM kick off their San Francisco speaking tour giving testimony to the dire working conditions they are fighting to change! This event is co-sponsored by Enlace. top of page It is so (if you think so) Cutting Ball Theater   - Tuesday, March 13   - 7:00 PM The Cutting Ball Theater, a San Francisco based experimental theater company now residing at Modern Times, is renowned for its unique creative productions and re-visioned classics. A classic in Italy, It is so (if you think so) is rarely performed in the United States.This is arguably Pirandello’s most powerful exploration of the nature of truth. If two people tell conflicting stories about the same event, can they both be right? It is high stakes philosophy in a hilarious comedy. top of page Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina Marina Sitrin   - Wednesday, March 14   - 7:30 PM After IMF policies led to economic meltdown in Argentina, millions of workers and the unemployed poured into the streets to protest. The social movements that exploded in Argentina that December not only transformed the fabric of Argentine society, but also highlighted the possibility of a genuinely democratic alternative to global capital. Author Marina Sitrin discusses her three years collecting an oral history of these movements. This event is co-sponsored by New College of California. top of page We Don’t Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists Melody Berger   - Thursday, March 15   - 7:30 PM Editor Melody Berger, of the F-WORD zine, (Utne 2006 Indie Press Award nominee!) will be on hand to play some fiddle and read from her essay, along with book contributors Lenelle Moise, Elena Azzoni, Maria Cristina Rangel, Liz Latty, and Josh Russell. They’ll be joined by several area artists, and there’s even talk of an open mic. Come and bring everyone you know who is cool. top of page The Room Where I Was Born Brian Teare with Kristen Yawitz ECSTATIC MONKEY READING SERIES   - Friday, March 16   - 7:30 PM This month join us as Brian Teare, graduate writing faculty at New College of California, graces Modern Times for a reading from his first book. The recipient of Stegner, National Endowment for the Arts, and MacDowell Colony poetry fellowships, Brian Teare has published poetry in Ploughshares, Boston Review, Provincetown Arts, VOLT, Verse, and The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative Poetry, among other publications. His first book, The Room Where I Was Born, was winner of the 2003 Brittingham Prize and the 2004 Triangle Award for Gay Poetry. Ecstatic Monkey member poet Kristen Yawitz will join him. top of page Perpetual Motion Roadshow   - Wednesday, March 21   - 7:30 PM The Perpetual Motion Roadshow is an indie press touring circuit, an unholy combination of vaudevillian variety show and punk rock tour. Each month, three new lively indie performers pile in a car and do seven cities in eight days. For each performance, PMR performers offer the bold guarantee: No boring readings or your money back! Performers TBA. top of page Double or Nothing! Ali Liebegott with Miranda Mellis   - Friday, March 23   - 7:30 PM All bets are off at tonight’s book launch throw down! Ali Liebgott and Miranda Mellis take it all the way to the edge and then go right over. Don’t miss these two pair o’ crazy pants reading from their new books The IHOP Papers and The Revisionist. Come dressed as a waitress or a private detective and recieve a special mystery prize! top of page End Times: The Death of the Fourth Estate Alexander Cockburn   - Saturday, March 24   - 7:00 PM At New College of California, 777 Valencia St Today, even the best known news mogul on the planet, Rupert Murdoch, concedes that we have entered a new era, that the print empires of a generation ago face at best a long twilight. Wherever one looks, from the plunging profit margins of the New York Times to the death of the old alternative weekly market, there are the omens of doom. In savage and often uproarious essays Cockburn and coauthor Jeffrey St. Clair dissect the cadaver of the Fourth Estate. This event is co-sponsored by the New College Media Studies Program. top of page Spanish Book Group / Círculo de Lectores de Literatura en Español   - Tuesday, March 27   - 7:00 PM Join us for our Spanish language book group on the fourth Tuesday of each month. A mix of native speakers and advanced level hablantes, the group has been meeting in the Mission District on a monthly basis for eight years! This month we will be reading Las Intermitencias de la Muerte by José Saramago. The book for April will be Los Pasos Perdidos by Alejo Carpentier. Books are available for purchase at the store. top of page New Blood Kate Braverman, Sharon Doubiago, et al   - Wednesday, March 28   - 7:00 PM Join us for a fantastic poetry showcase sure to be the hottest blast of young bandits and mentor outlaws San Francisco has ever seen. Kate Braverman and Sharon Doubiago headline a night of poetry that also features neo hip hop artist and stand-up poet Jeff “the Apostle” Campbell, co-host of Deluxe Bar venue, Ingrid Keir, spoken word poet Jessie Whiley, and j r jimmy hammond, with Jennifer Barone on sax. top of page LWho’s Afraid of WiFi? A Panel Discussion of the Google/Earthlink Commission Moderated by Annalee Newitz   - Thursday, March 29   - 7:00 PM Join ACLU member, Nicky Ozer, local blogger Kimo Crossman, Digital Inclusion Task Force committee member Emy Tseng, and representatives from both Google and the Public Net San Francisco coalition for a frank discussion of the ins and outs of San Francisco’s free wireless plan. Sure to be exhilirating and informative, participate in one of San Francisco’s most heated debates. Local author and techie, Annalee Newitz, moderates. top of page Burlesque! Books! And Really Cheap Liquor! A Burlesque-Life-Drawing-Book-Signing with Cupcakes Thrown In! Molly Crabapple   - Saturday, March 31   - 3:00 PM New York author/art provacateur Molly Crabapple reads from her saucy burlesque colouring book, Dr. Sketchy’s Official Rainy Day Colouring Book. Then, burlesque queen Sparkly Devil will fandance and pose for crayon armed attendees, with the best drawing winning a free book. Plus–booze and cupcakes. top of page New Jersey Betsy Andrews   - Saturday, March 31   - 6:30 PM At New College of California, 777 Valencia St. Betsy Andrews is the author of New Jersey, the University of Wisconsin’s 2007 Brittingham Prize winner. She is also the author of two chapbooks, She-Devil and In Trouble, and the collaborative book SuperCollider, with artist Peter Fox. Her poems, essays and reviews have appeared widely, from Five Fingers Review to the Yemeni newspaper Culture. top of page