Pop-Up Magazine comes to LA: 4/19/2015

Mark Frauenfelder 3:32 pm Tue Apr 14, 2015

Pop-Up Magazine is a spectacular night of storytelling/performance/music/film packed into a 100-minute extravaganza. It's coming to the beautiful Ace Theatre in downtown Los Angeles on 4/19 (this Sunday), and tickets are going fast.

I'm going, and I hope to meet fellow happy mutants there. Don't procrastinate. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see ticket holders, in the Ace Theatre, and you yourselves thrust out. Get your tickets now!

The line-up includes:

Photographer Alec Soth
New Yorker staff writer Dana Goodyear
Bestselling author and comedian Baratunde Thurston
Singer-songwriter Dawn Landes
New York Times bestselling author Suki Kim
Wired contributing editor Steve Silberman
National Geographic photographer Anand Varma
Public radio's The Kitchen Sisters
New York Times Magazine photo editor Stacey Baker
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Sam Green
Radiolab's Latif Nasser
And more!

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