Monday night I went to Stoop. This is in baltimore at the center stage, check out the website www.stoopstorytelling.com. Everyone has a story, right? This is an event where every month there is a theme and 7 set storytellers. they have 7 minutes to tell an interesting story on the theme and then other people can sign up through out the night to tell their own story. I think this is a great idea.
This months theme was money. There were tales of winning and losing thousands of dollars gambling at 19 (told by the very handsome host of NPRs show, the signal ), winning 100,000 dollars at horse racing, funny antics of young millionaires in the tech boom, and heartwarming stories of help after tragedy. All in all it was a good night. My friend Annliese said it lacked humor of a lot of the other nights, but hey, we are in a recession, what else is there to expect.
I'm very excited for the holiday spectacular. If everything goes right my friend Ben will tell a hilarious holiday story that will have me rolling in the isle. There will also be more music there. The house band, which is a sort of alt country band with an amazing lead singer Caleb, is called Caleb Stine and the Breakmen (which you can check out on myspace). They are the house band and fantastic, they had me knee slapping like a grandma at the fair.
I think I am going to sign up to be a storyteller for the valentines show so I can share some of my bad dates, which are in abundance. So look forward to that entry.
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