Partly Dave Show
It's time again for
The Partly Dave Show, Dave Awl's evening of performance and spoken-word cabaret. Tonight: Birthday Suits, pieces about birthdays or nudity or both. Featuring a striptease by clothing designer
Craig Calhoun. No Exit Café, 6970 N. Glenwood, 8 pm, $7 or pay what you can.
Danny's Tavern Reading Series
This month,
The Danny's reading series presents fiction by Michael Byers and Thisbe Nissen. Byers received his MFA from the University of Michigan and was a Stegner fellow at Stanford University. His novel
Long for this World was published in 2003 by Houghton Mifflin. His story collection,
The Coast of Good Intentions won the Sue Kaufman Prize for first fiction from the Academy of American Arts and Letters. Byers also won a Whiting Foundation Writer’s Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Prize. He lives in Pittsburgh. Thisbe Nissen grew up in Manhattan. She's a graduate of The University of Iowa Writer's Workshop, where she was a James Michener Fellow. Thisbe's the author of a collection of short stories,
Out of the Girl's Room and into the Night, and a novel,
The Good People of New York. She lives in Iowa City. Danny's Tavern is located at 1951 W. Dickens in Chicago. Bring ID since this reading is 21 and over. The reading starts at 7:30 p.m.
Lucille Clifton Reading
Award-winning poet Lucille Clifton will
read at 6:30 p.m., in the ballroom of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, at 112 S. Michigan Ave. Lucille Clifton's latest books of poetry,
Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 (BOA Editions, 2000), is winner of the National Book Award. Her awards and honors include an Emmy Award and a Lannan Literary Award. She is former Poet Laureate of Maryland, and teaches at St. Mary's College of Maryland. Lucille Clifton's Reading is underwritten by the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation and co-sponsored by The Gwendolyn Brooks Center at Chicago State University and
The Poetry Center of Chicago. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at the door.
MECA Conference
Check out the
Musician’s Education and Career Advancement Conference this May 12-15. MECA features over 40 panels with topics ranging from Managers 101 to Starting Your First Band, in addition to workshops and performance clinics, mentoring sessions, 250 live music showcases, and other events. Today is the last day to register at a discounted rate of $275, and after that, the fee is $300.
