Live with Luke Burbank!
Schedule
Thu Jun 08 2023 at 07:30 pm to 09:30 pm
Location
The Alberta Rose Theatre | Portland, OR
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Live Wire Radio takes to the Alberta Rose Theatre stage for our Season Finale on June 8th featuring FIVE GUESTS! We've got humor writer and podcaster Demi Adejuyigbe, lauded author Héctor Tobar, award-winning writer and comedian Jamie Loftus, singer-songwriter Isabeau Waia-u Walker, and the incomparable Jeopardy! host and author Ken Jennings!GET TO KNOW OUR GUESTS:
JAMIE LOFTUS
Emmy award-nominated writer and comedian Jamie Loftus may still have three of her baby teeth, but now she also has Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs, her debut book that is part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique AND all good! Before her deep-dive into the history of American meats, she wrote and starred in her own web series for Comedy Central, and regularly works on viral videos for Super Deluxe. As for her comedy, it often borders on performance art: she has dated an American Girl doll, sold “Shrek nudes” on Etsy to raise money for Planned Parenthood, and attempted to eat a copy of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. Furthermore, she is the host and creator of three critically-acclaimed iHeartRadio podcasts: My Year in Mensa, Lolita Podcast, and Aack Cast. Along with fellow comedian Caitlin Durante, she co-hosts The Bechdel Cast, a weekly podcast about the representation of women in film.
DEMI ADEJUYIGBE
Demi Adejuyigbe is a writer, filmmaker, comedian, performer, and a Live Wire favorite. While most know him as a co-host of the comedy podcasts Gilmore Guys and Punch Up the Jam, or as the creator behind the 21st of September video series, he also was a digital producer on Comedy Central's @midnight, and has written for The New Yorker, The Guardian, Pitchfork, Marvel, Cartoon Network, MTV, The Late Late Show with James Corden, and The Amber Ruffin Show, as well as episodes of the Marvel TV series New Warriors. He is a writer/supervising producer on the animated Apple+ series Strange Planet. He co-hosts the monthly comedy show Everything’s Great at Dynasty Typewriter.
HÉCTOR TOBAR
Self-described writer about town and opinionator, Héctor Tobar, is the author of six books published in fifteen languages, including the critically acclaimed, New York Times bestseller: Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine and the Miracle That Set Them Free. His newest book, Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of Latino decodes the meaning of "Latino" as a racial and ethnic identity in the modern United States using Tobar's personal experiences as the son of Guatemalan immigrants and the stories told to him by his Latinx students. Deep Down Dark was also adapted into the film The 33, starring Antonio Banderas, and his short fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories, Noir, Zyzzyva, and Slate. He is also a professor and has written for or been a contributing editor at multiple award-winning magazines.
ISABEAU WAIA’U WALKER
The vision for her music is clear and thought provoking, and Isabeau Waia'u Walker often expresses her vision through her master storytelling. The authenticity of her musical presentation as a performer and storyteller taps into human emotions and bonds her with the listeners and audiences in front of her. Isabeau worked as a high school teacher for over a decade while she made music, slowly amassing an impressive YouTube subscribership. She then orchestrated an early retirement from education to redirect attention to music, allowing her to tour as a member of Y La Bamba and to record her EP, Better Metric. Her full length album Body, recorded at The Center for Sound, Light and Color Therapy with bandmate and producer Ryan Oxford continues to highlight the tensions of the stretches and contractions nested in Isabeau's core which then reverberate through the layers of her product: storytelling, collaboration, presentation, music.
KEN JENNINGS
Ken Jennings used to be an anonymous Salt Lake City software engineer, but almost overnight he became a nerd folk icon via his record-breaking six-month streak on the TV quiz show Jeopardy! In his 75 appearances on the show, Ken won 74 games and $2.52 million, both American game show records. Barbara Walters named him one of the ten most fascinating people of the year, and Slate magazine dubbed him "the Michael Jordan of trivia, the Seabiscuit of geekdom." Since his Jeopardy! streak ended, Ken has become a best-selling author. His books include Brainiac, about the phenomenon of trivia in American culture, Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac, the biggest American trivia book ever assembled, Maphead, about his lifelong love of geography, and Because I Said So!: The Truth Behind the Myths, Tales, and Warnings Every Generation Passes Down Its Kids. His latestet book, 100 Places to See After You Die, is a "bucket list" travel book filled with destinations that can only be reached after death!
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Where is it happening?
The Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St,Portland,OR,United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
