Pop-Up Magazine, a live magazine featuring multimedia stories with animation, photos, film, illustration and an original soundtrack, will present a storytelling show this Saturday at 7:30pm at the Harris Theatre […]
At exactly 5 p.m. on October 18th I hustled out of my office so I could get across town in time to attend a reading. Most of the readings I […]
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the “sister city” cultural partnership of Chicago and Paris, the Chicago Sister Cities Paris Committee presents French Connection 2016 at The Poetry Foundation […]
[soliloquy id=”6938″] Third Coast Review’s Live Lit Series Kill Your Darlings: A Live Lit Mash-up ended last week with an evening themed around literature, alcohol and the storytelling tradition […]
Welcome back to Third Coast Rewind. We’re back with another installment of readings from Kill Your Darlings. This is the second edition of the podcast that puts the spotlight on […]
Third Coast Review and Tree Falls Productions conclude Kill Your Darlings, their series of “live-lit/improv mashups” on Wednesday, September 14. That night will be devoted to Lit itself and we’ll explore Chicago’s saloon […]
Carl Jung might call it synchronicity because this is a meaningful coincidence, albeit also accidental. Wednesday night at a live lit event I told the story of the play This […]
What would happen if you crossed a literary festival with a pub crawl? No need to imagine, Lit Crawl Chicago is a real event happening this Thursday in Andersonville. Brought […]
Poets and musicians from across the country will convene in Bronzeville, this Saturday, July 30, for the first ever Chicago Poetry Block Party. The event, which takes place in the […]
If Rahm Emanuel solved all his critical problems and had time to think about something really important, he might decide Chicago needs a poet laureate. If so, there would […]
Papers, pamphlets, and publishers filled the auditorium of the Plumbers Union Hall last weekend. Writers, artists, and readers celebrated the community and spirit of self-publishing at the seventh annual Chicago […]
On the morning of April 24, a Gmail notification appeared on my phone: “One new message from Juanna Rumbel.” Juanna Rumbel is the derby name of writer, storyteller, and stand-up comedian, […]