This Sunday's Show, New Photos, Our Intern, and Free tickets!
hi folks,
i've updated the website and there are tons of new photos up! enjoy. in other awesome news, truth serum now has an intern. (please, we've heard all of the blue dress jokes.) her name is lily and she's a senior at fenway high school. truth serum gets her for 6 weeks before she graduates. she's helping me with all kinds of stuff (fruits of which you'll get to see sometime soon, i'm sure) and has started a blog about her experience:
drop by and say hi to her. but most importantly!!! THE SHOWS!!! come to the show!!!
Sunday's headliner, Deadlee, was on Tyra Banks yesterday. Here links to it on YouTube if you want to watch. Please come out, the show is going to be amazing. Bring friends, it's going to be a dance party in the end. Details below. Links at www.truthserum.org
Deadlee on Tyra Part One Deadlee on Tyra part two Thursday Truth Serum hosts a reading with a bunch of brilliant writers reading from their books. It's an early event before karaoke at the Midway, so grab a quick snack and come over in your work duds. We like seeing you all dressed up. Details below. Links at www.truthserum.org
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ok! here are the details about ts shows. please cut and paste and send the info to friends. or better yet, just hit forward and forward this email to them.
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Sunday April 15, 2007
Hip Hop and Spoken Word Party
The Milky Way Lounge and Lanes
405 Centre Street in Hyde Square Jamaica Plain
$8-10 sliding doors at 8pm, show at 9pm 21+
http://www.truthserum.org for more info and advance tickets
This event revolves around the talent of Deadlee from LA and Feloni from
Detroit, two artist hot off the Homo Revolution 2007 tour. Deadlee was
featured in Pick Up the Mic a documentary about queers in Hip Hop that
made the festival curcuit last year. He was just on CNN and watch Tyra
Banks 3pm on April 12 for another interview.
Hip Hop from:
Deadlee (LA)
Feloni (Detroit)
Cathy Cathodic (Boston)
Spoken Word from:
Pandora Scooter (NYC)
Miss Nicholle Pride (Boston)
and Letta Neely (Boston)
Hot Mixes from:
DJ D'hana (Boston)
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Thursday April 19, 2007 7pm
Writers with Books Reading:
and early evening reading we wish we had a clever name for
featuring Pagan Kennedy, Alicia Goranson, Peggy Monson, and Letta Neely
Midway Cafe
3496 Washington Street JP
$3-5 sliding, 21+, followed by karaoke
http://www.truthserum.org for more information
Somerville-based author Pagan Kennedy reads from The First Man-Made Man is the story of Michael Dillon, the world's first transgender man.
Alicia Goranson a Boston-based writer reads from "Supervillainz", a novel that features a pair of transgender friends forced to confront their own alienation when pursued through the Boston genderqueer community by a family of superheroes who believethe friends killed their brother.
Peggy Munson reads from "Origami Striptease", is a love story
between an enigmatic wanderer named Jack and a feisty pornographic journalist who seduces borderland boys (trannies, butches, and daddies) and doesn't understand how she will inhabit the margins of which she writes.
Letta Neely is a Boston based writer who has authored two books, "Juba" and "Here." She'll be reading from her new book which is on the way to the printers.