Picking at Those Acne Scars

Remember your crush on your middle-school teacher and the hives it inspired every time he called on you in social studies? Pretty torturous stuff for a seventh-grader. And that nickname bestowed by mean girl Bethany Williams, likening your front teeth to walrus tusks? Totally lame. But then her high-society parents got busted in a sex scandal, and she had to come to school the next day. Yep, your adolescence is the stuff of Michael Cera movies. The same could be said for the pimply days of David Wayne Reed, Emily Frost, Ashlee Fairchild Jones and Sarah Mundy, local actors who read from their actual teenage journals during The Best of Dear Diary at Fishtank Performance Studio (1715 Wyandotte). Sunshine “Two Toke” Williams hosts the journey back to study hall. Admission costs $5. The bar takes cash donations, or you can bring your own bottle.— Crystal K. Wiebe

Fri., Dec. 3, 2010