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RACKET
November 14, 2018 @ 6:30 pm - 10:00 pm
$10 – $20
ODD SALON is coming to NYC this fall for three salons starting in September through November.
Join us at the Kraine Theater in Manhattan for a new incarnation of our cocktail hour lectures, from the Fellowship of Odd Salon speakers, alongside local New York storytellers.
Stories of skillful scammers, and slippery swindlers, brazen bunkos and bizarre bilkers; hosers, hoaxers, humbugs, and hornswogglers
RACKET
Wednesday, Nov 14
Kraine Theater: 85 E. 4th, New York City, NY 10003
Featuring:
Kate Pitt ~ Forgeries of Jealousy (Or, How Shakespeare Can Ruin Your Life)
Justin Cave ~ A Crooked Rebellion:Huang Chao and the Fall of the Tang Dynasty
JR Pepper ~ Rapping on This Hydesville Floor: The Fox Sisters Spiritualist Shenanigans
Matthew Codner ~ Gangster for Capitalism: Major General Smedley Butler, USMC
Christian Cagigal ~ The Rube Act: Canada Bill Jones & the Three Card Monte
Seth Rosenblatt ~ Samurais & Swindlers: How ‘Losers’ Organized Crime in Feudal Japan
Curated by Greg Taubman
Doors at 6:30 pm, talks at 7pm
General Admission $10-20
Ages 21+
Artwork by Imogen Speer
