Our Chicago Launch Event took place at Filter Cafe in Wicker Park, and then we moved to Adam’s place for the Afterparty. There were babies and grownups, men and women, and great coffee followed by beer and margaritas. About 30 people came to the launch and another 15-20 came to the Afterparty. … Read the rest
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The Gothic Funk Nation Presents
GOTHIC FUNK PARTY #25
#559
featuring music by Lisa Ogle
Tues. June 29th @ 7:30 PM
@ #559 (East of Sheridan Rd. between Granville and Glenlake)
$5.00 cover or FREE if you play the #559 game.… Read the rest
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Sometimes, if I get onto the CTA platform and an outbound train is waiting with no inbound train in sight, I’ll hop on the outbound train and ride north, and catch my train to work further up the line. It’s fun.
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Read my article on Chicago’s Wilson Yard development published by the Chi·Town Daily News at Target store on target for fall 2010, despite lawsuit.
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Read my article on the Uptown book and music store Shake Rattle and Read at Bookish Us: Shake Rattle and Read and the Uptown Story.
This article has also been promoted on the Uptown Update blog.
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Today I explored Chicago’s Ashburn neighborhood because it’s the setting of several plays I am currently revising. That sentence implies a circular paradox. Why wouldn’t I have explored the neighborhood before drafting the plays? In a sense, I did.
When I was a First Year at the University of Chicago (in 1997), I chose Ashburn as a setting for a Frankenstein play because the name had a cool sound.
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I know that week is probably just one among many for the U.S. and for the world, but the news has been rough for me personally on a number of fronts:
Chicago’s greatest parade will be shutting down after 50 years.
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Gothic Funk Nation
Party XIX: NO LUCK IN LOVE
In collaboration with Black Automatic and Front 312.
Launch of the
Paramanu Pentaquark:
A GOTHIC FUNK Journal
Afterparty of:
AWP Writer’s Conference
Artists:
Reinhardt Suarez
Elisabeth Blair
Jacob Saenz
Pierre Abelard
$5 Donation from 8 – 10:30
Includes a Copy of the Journal
$5 LeTourment Absinthe
$3 Domestics
$3 Well Drinks
$2.50 PBR
Friday, February 13
8 PM, 2nd Story Loft, 1931 N Milwaukee
Above Lucky Number Grill
The Gothic Funk Nation: http://www.GOTHICFUNK.org
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Chicago Reader: Outrageless: Is Chicago more complacent than other big cities?
I wonder how Detroit stacks in this equation. I understand the situation in Flint and New York.
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Tonight! The Gothic Funk Nation presents Tuesday Funk #8, featuring Kristy Bowen, Liz Levine, and Roberta Wilson.
7 PM at Flourish Bakery Cafe
1138 W. Bryn Mawr (near the Red Line)
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