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Start: 7:00 pm
Temple University historian Bryant Simon has taken particular slices of contemporary life, and used them to tell larger, social stories. He did this with his book on Atlantic City's Boardwalk, Boardwalk of Dreams: Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America, and he does it now in his newest, Everything But the Coffee: Learning About America from Starbucks (University of California Press), for which he visits Starbucks' hometown. "Simon knows more about Starbucks—and about why so many Americans find perfection in their lattes—than anyone. He connects our deepest desires to be good, smart, ethical consumers with our equally strong yearning to consume in an authentic way. Our coffee, Simon shows, is us." - Sharon Zukin.
Start: 7:30 pm
Co-presented in the TOWN HALL FUTURE OF HEALTH Lecture Series with Bastyr University and PCC Natural Markets. Dr. Gabor Maté has for the past twelve years served as the staff physician at the Portland Hotel Society in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside—North America's only supervised, safe injection harm reduction site. His patients are "challenged by hard-core drug addiction, mental illness, homelessness and HIV—sometimes all four." His approach to understanding addiction, as a continuum running throughout society, and as a "complex interplay among personal history, emotional and neurological development, brain chemistry, and the drugs and behaviors of addiction" is the subject of his book, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction (a new, revised U.S. edition, North Atlantic Books). "Maté's resonant, unflinching analysis of addiction today shatters the assumptions underlying our War on Drugs." - Norman Stamper. "Gabor Maté's connections—between the intensely personal and the global, the spiritual and the medical, the psychological and the political—are bold, wise, and deeply moral." - Naomi Klein. $5 tickets are available at the door starting at 6:30 p.m., in advance via www.brownpapertickets.com (or 1-800-838-3006). Town Hall Seattle is at 1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca). Preferred seating for Town Hall members. For more information, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600, Town Hall at (206) 652-4255, or see www.townhallseattle.org.
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