Join Andersonville residents and celebrate the holidays the Swedish way, with St. Lucia and the Lucia Procession. Lucia girls, in white robes and candle crowns, were crowned at noon at the temporary Nordic House in the Wrigley building downtown. This afternoon a procession walks up Clark Street in Andersonville (starting at the Swedish American Museum, […]
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Readings from Remaking the Exceptional, Interrobang Theatre Project, and more
This summer, DePaul Art Museum hosted “Remaking the Exceptional,” a group exhibition curated by artist and activists Aaron Hughes and Amber Ginsburg that explored the similarities between survivors of torture at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp and survivors of police torture in Chicago. This evening, Ginsburg and fellow activists celebrate the release of Remaking the […]
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Let’s get lit
Here are some book-related, word-inspired, and otherwise literary Chicago events to help kick off 2022. Each event is open to the public, but registration or tickets might be required (and you’ll want to support the writers by buying their books!). Wed 1/19, 6:30 PM: City Lit Books co-presents its regular Poetry Salon in an online […]
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Celebrating women’s solidarity through culture on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was created by Chicago-via-Indiana photographer and designer Adeleine Prairie Sinsabaugh.
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David Grubbs on the meaning of records
David Grubbs on why the experimental music of the 1960s was so rarely recorded at the time—and what changes when we listen to it today.
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Silk Road Rising’s “Mosque Alert” enlists the global community
Silk Road Rising’s play in progress, “Mosque Alert,” crowdsources controversy.
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The International Voices Project visits eight countries in ten days
The International Voices Project at Victory Gardens Theater
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4/24 — Free Children’s Book Reading at Barbara’s Bookstore
Children’s author Sherry North reads and signs her new book on Sat 4/24 at 3 PM at Barbara’s Bookstore.
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Fall Arts Guide 2009: Lit & Lectures Listings
SEPTEMBER wednesday 9/9 Nami Mun reads from her novel Miles From Nowhere. 7:30 PM, Women & Children First, 5233 N. Clark, 773-769-9299. Don Share, Emily Warn Joint poetry reading by Share (Squandermania) and Warn (Shadow Architect). 5:30 PM, Columbia College Concert Hall, 1014 S. Michigan, 312-369-8819. thursday 9/10 Lev Raphael l (The German Money) presents […]
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Fall Arts Guide 2009
The complete fall arts season: theater, dance, comedy, movies, music, lit, and art
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11/21 — Reading by the “Wear Sunscreen” scribe
Tonight: Everybody’s free (to attend a reading by the “Wear Sunscreen” scribe)
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Punks Apparently Still Allowed in Wicker Park
Erick Lyle, the erstwhile Iggy Scam, plays the Beat Kitchen tonight and reads from his new book at Quimby’s on Monday.
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Exit Naomi: Joe Carducci reads from an LA eulogy
Joe Carducci’s new book, which he’ll read from at Quimby’s on Saturday, eulogizes a woman who captured SST’s heyday on film.
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Local Lit: Irvine Welsh-spotting
Since the spectacular success of his first novel, Trainspotting, ten years ago, Scottish writer Irvine Welsh has solidified his reputation as the profane scribe of the drug-addled and disenfranchised, producing four more novels in addition to multiple novellas, plays, and short stories. He’s also gotten into film production, journalism, teaching, and humanitarian work on behalf […]