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Events Tue Apr 05 2011
Tuesday Funk @ Hopleaf
If you got funk, you got style (yeah, it'll be a while before I run out of P-Funk references). If you got style, you'll be at Tuesday Funk tonight. Tonight's readers include:
- Ian Belknap is a writer/performer and former comedian who's opened for the likes of Steven Wright and Dennis Miller. These days he hosts Write Club at The Hideout, is the fact checker for The Encyclopedia Show, and semi-regular Dean of Mean at The Paper Machete. He is author of the live memoir show Wide Open Beaver Shot of My Heart: A Comedy With a Body Count.
- Lisa Chalem runs the blog Feel The Love, Eat The Food and is a member of The Writers Workspace.
- Robert K. Elder is the author of Last Words of the Executed and The Film That Changed My Life: 30 Directors On Their Epiphanies In The Dark. Studs Terkel called Elder "a journalist in the noblest tradition." A former staff writer at the Chicago Tribune, Elder's work has appeared in The New York Times, MSNBC.com, The Los Angeles Times, salon.com, and many other publications.
- J. H. Palmer is a Gapers Block contributor, is the winner of the February Moth Story Slam, and runs the blog Buttered Noodles.
- William Shunn is the co-host of Tuesday Funk A Chicagoan since 2007, he's the author of The Accidental Terrorist: My Adventures as a Foot Soldier in the Mormon Army as well as the novella Inclination, which was nominated for the Hugo, the Nebula and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Awards. Catch up with him here.
Hopleaf, upstairs lounge, 5148 N. Clark St., Tuesday, April 5, 7:30pm.