Photos!

Better late than never, we've posted a few photos of Fray Cafe 3. Enjoy!

– Derek   30 May 03 @ 1:27PM

Fray Cafe 3 Audio!

Missed Fray Cafe 3 Austin? Just wanna experience it again? Fear not: Now you can listen to the whole shebang, recorded right off the sound board. All you need is the RealOne Player and a few hours to kill. Listen in!

– Derek   30 Mar 03 @ 4:26PM

People are talking

People are talking about Fray Cafe 3! Read on for some choice comments and links to photos of the event from around the web.

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– Derek   8 comments   14 Mar 03 @ 2:17PM

Thanks for the stories

Fray Cafe 3 was amazing. We crammed over 200 people into the Mercury Lounge for over four hours of stories. Highlights included: Meryl Evans, weeks away from her due date, telling a story about her first pregnancy, Scott Andrew LePera's 80's medly, Tarin Towers screaming, "Pussy!", and Ben Brown's dad destroying Batman. We had stories about love, accidents, and lots of blood. It was amazing.

Thanks to everyone who attended, helped, and performed. And, especially, thanks to Michael Brown, our Austin organizer, who made all this happen.

Stay tuned: Photos (and hopefully some audio and video) coming soon!

– Derek   10 Mar 03 @ 12:46PM

See you soon!

Hey Austinites, Fray Cafe 3 is tonight! Hope to see you there. Bring a story to tell!

– Derek   9 Mar 03 @ 9:49AM

Featured Performers

It's my pleasure to introduce some of the featured performers you'll see on stage this Sunday....

Ben Brown runs So New Media, an ultra-micro-mini publishing house. He's writing a novel about reality television, and contributed to fray's 2001 and Valentine's Day pieces. Little known fact: he's got 6 pieces of metal in his body.

Brad L. Graham is a writer, editor, soft-shoe dancer, singer of sentimental ballads, raconteur and bon vivant from St. Louis, Missouri. His writing has appeared in publications across the country, mostly in the form of bitterly-worded personal ads. He has spun tales at Fray Days 4 through 6 and at last year's Fray Cafe 2. Both by accident and on purpose, he has purchased foodstuffs for a variety of celebrities, including a chocolate chip cookie for Dolly Parton, a fruit smoothie for George Stephanopolous, and salad dressing for Mark McGwire.

Jish Mukerji will be telling a story about his supreme studliness. This will be the fourth time he gets up on stage to tell a story at a Fray event, and hopes it's not his last. It's not commonly known that Jish once pee'd out the fourth story window of his high school chemistry class. Thankfully, there were no witnesses and only a shrub received his "blessing."

Despite the efforts of security, John Halcyon Styn has gotten on stage at several past Fray events. His homepage, cockybastard.com became lifestudent.com this year when he realized how incredibly far he has to go. MTV film crews hilighted his digital journeys in last year's "Naked on the Net" documentary. He will be sharing a story about Grandpa Caleb.

Kevin Smokler is a book critic for a San Francisco Chronicle and a contributor to Invisible Ink Radio on NPR. He's performed at all three Fray Cafes, Fray Days 4 through 6 in San Francisco, and appears on the Fray Day 5 CD. As a child, he had a stuffed dog named Marshmallow.

Scott Andrew LePera ekes out a haphazard existence as frustrated urban folksinger and creative force behind the Walkingbirds. He last performed live at Fray Day 5 San Francisco, along with fellow songwriter Laurie Hallal, and in 2002 helped produce the Fray Day 5 CD to benefit the Fray Organization. Scott once fell off the roof of a barn while training to be a ninja.

Tarin Towers is the author of several {fray} stories, has performed at almost all of the San Francisco events, and appears on the Fray Day 5 CD. Tarin has toured with Sister Spit and the Ignition tour, and she has performed at such venues as the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. She's the author of Sorry, We're Close, a collection of poetry and fiction. Tarin spent several months in high school putting dirt into pots, until she got the coveted meat slicing job at Yoder's, the Amish superstore.

– Derek   5 Mar 03 @ 7:39PM

Fray Cafe 3 Poster

Hey Austinites! Wanna help us promote Fray Cafe? Download this swanky poster (355k pdf), print out a dozen on the office copier, cut 'em up (there are three to a sheet), and put 'em up around town! Come on, what are office supplies for? The Fray thanks you.

– Derek   24 Feb 03 @ 10:24PM

Rumors and Innuendo

Rumor has it that two all-time favorite Fray performers will be performing at Fray Cafe: Slam poet chanteuse Tarin Towers and local Austinite and crazy man Ben Brown. Are the rumors true? Come to Fray Cafe and find out!

– Derek   24 Feb 03 @ 10:19PM

Encourage Andrea

Andrea is thinking about performing at Fray Cafe, so she posted two mp3s of her reading two potential stories (both of which are about boy-parts, so you know they're good). Take a listen and encourage her to come perform!

– Derek   24 Feb 03 @ 10:16PM

Call for Austin Volunteers

If you live in or around the Austin area and are available to distribute flyers, contact local media, or help out in any other way for Fray Cafe 3, please contact Michael Brown at michael@chatterwaul.com. Thanks!

– MichaelBrown   18 Feb 03 @ 11:44AM

Start Practicing Now

Fray Cafe is a participatory event! We'll have a few featured performers lined up, sure, but mostly we're counting on you. So come with a story to tell! Interested in taking the stage? Check out the open mic guidelines for some tips and tricks. See you on stage!

– Derek   7 Feb 03 @ 8:47PM

Fray Cafe Welcomes Scott Andrew

We're thrilled to announce that Scott Andrew LePera (of the Walkingbirds) will be playing an solo acoustic set at Fray Cafe 3. Scott Andrew is the producer of the highly coveted Fray Day 5 CD and appears on it as well, so if you'd like to hear his work, pick up a copy or check out his music page.

– Derek   28 Jan 03 @ 10:20PM

Help Fray Cafe Happen

We all know that times are tight. So tight, in fact, that we need to raise some money in order to pay for our lovely venue this year. (If you were at Fray Cafe 2 last year, you may have noticed that is was a tad cozy. Or you may not have noticed because you were one of the many people who were turned away because we ran out of room.) So this year we have a much larger venue, and the price tag that comes with it.

So we're having a small fundraising drive in advance. If you have a PayPal account, please make a donation of a few bucks to the cause. And if you don't have a PayPal account you can sign up here and get five bucks just for your trouble.

Thanks for helping to make Fray Cafe happen!

– Derek   28 Jan 03 @ 9:20PM

Fray Cafe Returns to SXSW

Look out, Austin! Fray Cafe is making it's third annual appearance in conjunction with the South by Southwest Interactive Festival. Join us for an evening of true, personal stories, where you're invited to take the stage and tell your story, too.

As with previous years, we'll be following the SXSW Web Awards ceremony on Sunday night. Unlike last year, we'll have plenty of room. We'll be at the beautiful, spacious Mercury Lounge this year. Show up early to get on the open mic list!

Details:
Sunday, March 9, 2003
8pm to midnight
The Mercury Lounge
214 E. 6th St. (upstairs above Jazz, the restaurant)
Free for SXSW badge-holders, $5 otherwise

Stay tuned to this website for more details when they become available.

– Derek   28 Jan 03 @ 8:32PM

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