Tag: events
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Look Up: The Perseids Meteor Shower is Upon Us
For more than 2000 years, we have records of humans enjoying a spectacle of white streaks across the night sky about this time of year. We call it the Perseids meteor shower. Though it lasts a couple of weeks, tonight is the peak viewing time with the highest number of meteors per hour, so clear…
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Writers with Drinks–Not your Average Open Mic
Writers with Drinks: 10 August 2013 Back in 2001, writer Charlie Jane Anders, assembled a group of other writers to read their work on stage. Instead of the solemn, typical performance of writers, this event is a bit more . . . shall we say, interactive–if not downright raucous. Instead of struggling, young writers reading…