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Bookmarks Fri Sep 30 2011
Bookmarks
- As of yesterday, Gay Chicago magazine is online-only, its print edition no more. Founded in 1976, for many years it was one of Chicago's solo LGBT publications.
- Check out Strange Kids Comix Magazine #2 for some pre-Halloween good times.
- Ray Bradbury inspires at 2001's Six Annual Writer's Symposium by the Sea.
This weekend:
- Tonight! David Blight (American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era) and William C. Harris (Lincoln and the Border States: Preserving the Union) appear at Abraham Lincoln Book Shop.
- Tonight! Sujatha Fernandes presents Close to the Edge: In Search of the Global Hip Hop Generation at the Stop Smiling Storefront.
Tonight! Naked Girls Reading at the Everleigh Club, $20 or $35 for two tickets; reservations required.
Saturday! The one and only Roger Ebert presents his memoir Life Itself at the Newberry Library. - Tonight, The Urban Sandbox, a monthly performance series highlighting poetry, music, comedy and more features poet Mary Fons and jazz singer Brandie Madrid at Comfort Station, right off the Logan Square Blue Line stop.
- Saturday! Banned Books Week continues as City Lit Theater performs excerpts from banned books at Chicago Public Library, Roosevelt branch.
- Saturday! Dmitry Samarov reads from Hack: Stories From a Chicago Cab at Rainbo Club.
- Saturday! Joe Janes presents 50 Plays: 50 Short One-Act Plays at Quimby's.
Sunday, the 2nd Story presents: ""I Got Schooled: Stories from the Classroom of Life". Stories everywhere from the middle school gym to Park Avenue will be read by Lauren Kelly-Jones, Jennifer Bosworth, Brendan Kelly, and David Peak. If you enjoy it, the encore happens on Monday Oct 10th. Both events are at Webster Wine Bar , 7pm, $15 online or $20 at the door.
