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Bookmarks Fri Aug 05 2011
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Weekend update:
- Tonight, The Interview Show at the Hideout features comedian Marc Maron, musicians Jon Langford and Lawrence Peters and Chicago News Cooperative editor James O'Shea.
- Saturday! Myopic Poetry Series at Myopic Books featuring Christeene Fraser and Anthony Madrid.
- Also Saturday, College of Complexes at the Lincoln Restaurant hosts Peter Glon and his theories on The Lost Art of Being a Gentleman.
- Later that Saturday, Will Kaufman presents the biography Woody Guthrie, American Radical and performs Guthrie tunes at Heartland Café.
- Sunday! Ellen Wade Beals presents the anthology Solace In So Many Words at Grace Episcopal Church.
- Still Sunday - Beach Poets featuring Sheila Donovan, Loyola Beach, Greenleaf and the Lake.
- Last Sunday item: Saswati Das reads from her poetry collection Fragrant Flute of Fire at Centuries and Sleuths.
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In other news...
- There's still some time to read by the pool, or in a more general sense, in the outdoors. The Chicago Public Library has a list of music-themed summer reads to help you out.
- Check out newcomers Anobium and Grow Books.
- It's a bird, it's a plane, it's the Chicago Comic Con, aka Wizard World, happening next weekend at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont. Special guests include Anthony Michael Hall, Billy Corgan, Felicia Day, and more.