On Sunday, April 6th, Comix hosts A Night for Dottie, a one night only stand up and sketch comedy benefit show supported by Comedy Fights Cancer. In addition to hilarious performances by comedians including Judah Friedlander from NBC’s 30 Rock, the night will include raffle prize giveaways such as a Cole Haan bag, tickets to The Daily Show, Colbert Report, Blue Man Group and more!A Night for Dottie is being held in honor of Dottie Person, a loving and devoted wife and mother of five who at just 32 years old lost her battle with cancer. Her amazing spirit and never-ending grace and gratitude stayed with her until her last day. Comedy Fights Cancer is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that delivers live and taped stand up comedy to patients in hospitals and care facilities. Their mission is to improve patient quality of life through humor.A Night for Dottie brings together comedians from different walks of life to celebrate her life through laughter and raise money for her five children she left behind. Performers include: Judah Friedlander (30 Rock, Best Week Ever)Christian Finnegan (Best Week Ever, Chappelle’s Show)Katina Corrao (Best Night Ever, HBO’s Daddy)Michael Somerville (Glamour Magazine’s “Jake”)Sara Jo Allocco (AMC, Comedy Central)Glennis McMurray (Maxim Sirius Radio, Conan O’Brien)Matt McCarthy (Montreal Comedy Festival, Live at Gotham)Mark Malkoff (VH1, MarklivesinIKEA.com)Paul “Fitzy” Fitzgerald (Townienews.blogspot.com)Lineup subject to change. Sunday, April 6 @ 7:00 PMComix353 W. 14th StreetNew York, NY Show tickets are $15 in advance, $20 day of show plus a two item minimum per person in the showroom. Tickets can be purchased online at www.comixny.com or by calling 212.524.2500.Raffle tickets are $1.00 and will be sold at the show. You must be present to win some of the amazing prizes listed below.RAFFLE PRIZES INCLUDE:A Cole Haan handbagFour tickets to The Daily ShowFour tickets to The Colbert ReportTwo tickets to Blue Man GroupTwo tickets to Conan O’BrienTwo tickets to The Late Show with David LettermanLa Prairie Gift BasketSigned Kobe Bryant Lakers HatBee-Alive Gift BasketABOUT DOTTIE PERSON"Grace is actually always there, it just matters if we choose to see it." - Dottie Person.Dottie Person was a mother of five living on the SUNY Maritime College campus in Throgs Neck, New York. In February, 2006, she was diagnosed with melanoma during her eighth month of pregnancy. Jack was born safe and sound and is the youngest of Dottie's five beautiful children who also include Elise, Caroline, Mary Katherine and Drew.Dottie died on April 2, 2007 at age 32. She died as an inspiration of faith, hope, and love. More importantly, she taught us how to live. Dottie walked the simple way of gratitude and encouraged us to "focus on present joy, not unknowns or what-ifs." Dottie's remarkable story of motherhood and love through overwhelming adversity has become a voice of hope that is touching more lives than she could have ever dreamed.

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Bay Area Birth Information (BABI), a local non-profit organization, will hold its 5th annual Meet BABI Fair connecting expectant and new parents with dedicated professionals, services, information, and community resources.A group of birth-related professionals who wished to provide a stronger community of support for birthing and new families founded BABI, the only non-profit, non-affiliated pregnancy and parenting resource organization in the South Bay and Peninsula.The community will have the opportunity to connect with birth professionals in the Bay Area. On hand for consultations will be midwives, doulas, childbirth and new baby instructors, breast-feeding and postpartum support, chiropractors, acupuncturists, herbalists, pre-natal and infant massage therapists, pre-natal yoga instructors, and local support groups. There will also be free massage, personal consultations, lots of prize drawings, face painting, demonstrations and mini lectures by local experts throughout the day.BABI promotes awareness of evidence-based care and options in order to reduce unnecessary birth interventions, improve breastfeeding success rates, and preserve healthy mother, baby, and family attachments. Through compassionate, accessible, and non-judgmental education and resources, BABI seeks to increase and promote normal, spontaneous labor and vaginal delivery, minimize mother/baby separations, and reduce the maternal/infant morbidity and mortality rates. BABI promotes great-er awareness of evidence-based care and the broad range of choices available to birthing women as well as birth professionals, restoring dignity, satisfaction and joy to the birthing process. FREE!

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The San Francisco Birth & Baby Fair, is THE event for new and expecting parents in the San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area. Join us for a day of education and shopping. Meet representatives from the local birthing and early parenting community. There will be demonstrations and workshops on cloth diapering, birthing options, pregnancy health and wellness topics and more! You'll have a chance to shop for maternity apparel & baby wear and accessories, most at discounted prices from local designers. Plus we'll have goody bags for the first 250 families, refreshments, and a chance to win prizes in our free raffle.Discounted & complimentary passes are available at most exhibitors and sponsors. Visit www.BirthandBabyFair.com for more details.

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Do you believe that all youth and teenagers deserve the right to a comprehensive education about sex, sexual orientation, sexually transmitted infections (sti's) and prevention methods, HIV/AIDS, pregnancy, abstinence, birth control, anatomy and relationships?Did you know that many students across the country are only being taught about anatomy and abstinence? And that many of them receive "sex education" in school only once every several years? Do you want to learn more about the California Dept. of Education's recently adopted Health Education Content Standards? Are you interested in asking San Mateo County to adopt these statewide OPTIONAL standards as countywide policy in our schools?Event includes networking time, a 30 min. documentary, and discussion. Free.

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Fresh from the mountains of San Francisco and laced with pure American Bluegrass. This 'shine is 100 proof and guaranteed to get you off your feet and dancin' like a crazy drunk...if you're not already.THE EARL BROTHERS (Moonshine Release Party)It's always a big event when The Earl Brothers appear, let alone release a brand-spankin' new CD. These guys are on to something that's so primeval, insistent, dark, old-time and thrilling that it just about defies description. I find myself completely mesmerized by their gothic Stanley Brothers sound. It just doesn't get anymore tough-edged and raw than the Earls. Dave Higgs - Nashville Public RadioBiG B & HiS SNAKE OiL SAViORS (SF)This 8 piece western-swing band will blow your head off...literally - their horn section is simply amazing! Think Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys with a dash of hillbilly boogie.HEADS UP: for you old-school country lovers out there, pedal steel legend David Phillips is in the house!TOSHiO HiRANO (SF)Smitten by American folk music as a teenager growing up in Tokyo, Hirano came to this country to visit the land of the music he loved. He went straight to Appalachia after he graduated from college in 1974 and took locals by surprise, tooling through West Virginia coal mining towns on a bicycle, a mandolin on his back, looking for the ancestral home of bluegrass, long before multiculturalism reached the backwoods. Joel Selvin - Chronicle Senior Pop Music CriticWARNING: According to the Surgeon General (well, Grandpappy Phil anyhow), women should not drink moonshine beverages during pregnancy because of the risk of birth defects. Nor have relations with first cousins due to the same reason.

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