Greenbelt Alliance 50th Anniversary Wednesday, September 10 from 6 - 9 PM

"For 50 years, Greenbelt Alliance has been the Bay Area's advocate for
open spaces and vibrant places. With grassroots action, education, and
award-winning research, Greenbelt Alliance helps Bay Area cities and
towns adopt smart growth policies. The goal is to create more walkable
neighborhoods, with homes people can afford, close to jobs,
services,and good public transportation -- surrounded by a protected
greenbelt of farms and natural areas.

Celebrate 50 years! On Wednesday, September 10 from 6 - 9 pm,
Greenbelt Alliance will celebrate its 50th anniversary at the Herbst
International Exhibition all at the Presidio, with local wines and
farm-fresh foods prepared by some of the Bay Area's best chefs -- and
you're invited! Please visit http://www.greenbelt.org/50_years.html
today!"

Perry
perry.gregg@post.harvard.edu

Sat. August 16 - One Night Only - MIT's Betsy Salkind appearing in the Bay Area in fantastic show - tickets on sale now.

Subject: Sat. August 16 - One Night Only - Betsy appearing in the Bay
Area in fantastic show - tickets on sale now.

Julie Goldman's Offensive Women
The All-Headliner Comedy Show
Saturday, August 16 8:00pm
$30.00 Advance Admission, Doors 7:00pm
$20.00 General Admission, Doors 7:30pm

Buy tickets at ticketweb.com or by calling 415.383.9600

Julie Goldman's Offensive Women, the all-headliner comedy show
features Offenders Julie Goldman (NY), one-time local Betsy Salkind
(LA), and our own Aundre the Wonderwoman (SF). The outrageous
all-female comedy show is now being presented in both New York and LA
every month, but we have them for a one-night only Bay Area exclusive!
The shows celebrate uncensored, fearless female comedians saying
whatever they damn well please. And they promise more than just
stand-up!

JULIE GOLDMAN, fresh off her new solo show The Julie Goldman Offensive
at the Culture Project, recently won LOGO's New Now Next "Brink of
Fame: Comic" Award. She also co-stars on The Big Gay Sketch Show on
LOGO. "What's so offensive about our show? You tell me! Offensive
is in the eye of the beholder. What I'm trying to do is give funny
women a forum to be as out there as they want to be, say what's really
on their minds and do material that's hysterical but might be
considered too edgy for regular comedy clubs." Offensive Women is
also producing a series of web shorts and is planning a headliner tour
in 2009.

BETSY SALKIND The Boston Globe says, "There are countless ways to
make someone laugh, and Betsy Salkind knows most of them. Want
sarcastic wit? Political humor? Or maybe just a good animal mime?
Salkind can pull all that off and more." Betsy Salkind was a writer
for "Saturday Night Special" and "Roseanne," wrote and starred in the
critically-acclaimed "Anne Frank Superstar," and has appeared as a
stand-up on numerous TV shows including "The Tonight Show with Jay
Leno." Best known for her squirrel impression, she refuses to be
pigeonholed as a rodent. In addition to touring, the LA based
comedian now writes for "Ethel's Law" (ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com).

AUNDRÉ the WONDERWOMAN -- has set her sights on political humor from
the beginning. A clever and engaging satirist, she uses the stage as
her bully pulpit, taking on everything from presidential politics to
animal lovers. She took first place at the 1999 Inaugural Russian
River Resort Comedy Competition, was a semi-finalist in the 2005 San
Francisco International Comedy Competition and is the recipient of the
2008 Stand Up For Justice Award from Death Penalty Focus, a
California-based national group, for her work against the death
penalty. She a comedy voice not to be missed, especially during this
historic political election season.

http://www.142throckmortontheatre.com/event.php?eventid=807

Perry
perry.gregg@post.harvard.edu

MIT's Ronald Demon & sneakers on History Channel today

FYI.

Ronald Demon - http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/demon.html

"Tonight! 10 pm! The History Channel!

It's the premiere of The Works: Sneakers.

Verb For Shoe will be featured.

If you're not able to catch it tonight, the episode will be
rerun repeatedly over the next few weeks:

Friday, August 8, 2 AM
Sunday, August 17, 11 AM
Thursday, August 21, 10 AM
Thursday, August 21, 4 PM

Here is the webpage for this episode:

http://www.history.com/shows.do?action=detail&episodeId=322784

We launched a redesigned website last night at:

www.verbforshoe.com "

Perry
perry.gregg@post.harvard.edu

Reflecting on the Past Week

From: David Evans <...evans@fas.harvard.edu>
Date: Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 8:48 AM
Subject: Reflecting on the Past Week
To: perry.gregg@post.harvard.edu

Perry,

Once upon a time academic excellence was honorable and we taught our
children to do well in school for the acquisition of knowledge,
educational advancement, and the betterment of the human race. In
seems that, in 2008, this philosophy has been sullied or reversed.
The McCain campaign seems to suggest that Barack Obama's magna cum
laude degree from Harvard Law School and his presidency of the Harvard
Law Review (in and of themselves) make him arrogant and out of touch
with "the people." Mind you, this is an African American male whose
divorced mother was once on welfare during his childhood.

Further, the McCain campaign asserts that his celebrity or popularity
somehow renders him comparable to Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. If
we can put these unfair comparisons aside for a moment, clear-thinking
Americans might ask: Is there something wrong with popularity for a
politician? The word popularity is related to the Latin word,
populus, meaning "the people." At Gettysburg, Abraham Lincoln
enshrined the role of the people in our democracy with his famous
declaration:

"…and that government of the people, by the people, for the people,
shall not perish from the earth."

Obama's excellent oratory has been criticized as rhetorical and
vacuous. I'm sure that the loyalists among the American colonists
held similar views of the declaration set forth by Thomas Jefferson
and that small band of men who gathered in Philadelphia on that hot
summer day of 1776. Lincoln's "brief remarks" at Gettysburg in 1863
were rhetorical and lacked the historic luster and power they would
acquire over the subsequent 145 years and the beautiful oratory of
Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963 was not nearly as
popular and universally acclaimed as it is today.

Let's hope that these historic examples teach us that idealism and the
commanding oratory sometimes necessary to contextualize it, are as old
as our country and are vital components of our ever-changing
democracy.

Best regards,

David

Pay your $20 h-b-a annual dues to reach your Bay Area brethren

"Let every sheep keep its own skin." We are growing. There are 12K
alumni in the 9 Bay Area counties. Excluding duplicates the current
membership is 2674.

The $20 annual dues are suggested not mandatory. If you haven't done
so already, help keep us around. Click on this link.

http://hbadues.notlong.com

Best,

Perry
perry.gregg@post.harvard.edu