New York, New York: Friday, 8/1/08

Hi all,

We're featuring at Five Points this Friday night, 8/1. Some of my students will be opening for us--should be a great show! Come check us out if you can.

Silk Road Place
30 Mott Street
Chinatown, NYC
7:30pm

Love ya!

Pictures from Campus Progress/Washington DC

Good news! My camera is back from the repair shop! Here are some of my pictures from our performance at Campus Progress, as well as some beautiful pictures of D.C.'s Metro Train Stations. I'd write captions fo all of them but it's too hot, so I'll just leave that up to your imagination.

The Metro Pass. Cute and recyclable.

I asked my friend Zakee who has lived in DC before whether it was safe to take the train and he replied "Hell yeah, it looks like Epcot Center!" As you can see he wasnt lyin'.



Below are pictures at Adams Morgan station, and what looks like a long tunnel is actually the escalators going up. Wayyyyyyy up.


And the view from up top...

The beautiful Omni Shoreham Hotel.


All their electric cords were covered in bunchy satin, which confused me for a little bit.

The hotel was mad old school, they had a shoe shine...

an old tele, that actually worked!

And inside our green room was a real chess set. I guess it helps breaks the tension, if you're going to be speaking to a large crowd such as Campus Progress...

Like the professional artist that she is, Michelle rehearsed...

but I could one think of food. Yummy... Our good friend Paul Fiores was also there and opened the show.

That's him all the way on the left, and that's his big-screen persona. As you can imagine the room was huge, and full of people. That little guy standing off-stage was the sign-language translator.
Paul's set was really good, and the sign-language guy kept up really well. But I was a little woried how he'd do once we got on. Surprisingly, he actually did continue to translate Listen Asshole, and I'm A Woman Not A Flava as fast as we were going. Unfortunately we dont' have any pictures of our performance, but if anyone's out there got a good one, email us!

2008 Campus Progress National Conference, 7/8/08

Hey everyone,

We will be performing in Washington DC at the Campus Progress National Conference. We are slated to perform at the end of the lunch plenary. For more info on the schedule of sessions and list of speakers, check out the conference website, which is linked to Campus Progress's main website: http://campusprogress.org/

Senator John Edwards will be the keynote speaker. The conference will be held on and at--

Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Omni Shoreham Hotel
2500 Calvert St NW
Washington, DC 20008

Hope to see you there.