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Dialogs: SCOTUS Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Shares Her New Memoir Lovely One at Chicago Humanities Festival

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson inaugurated the Chicago Humanities Festival’s autumn 2024 season in front of a packed, enthusiastic crowd at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance. In […]

  • Karin McKie
  • September 25, 2024
    • Dialogs , Events , Lit , Live Lit , Music , Nonfiction , Pop , Stages

    Dialogs: Reggie Watts Celebrates Glorious Black Nerds at the Old Town School

    Reggie Watts is far more than James Corden’s bandleader on the former The Late Late Show. He’s an innovative musician (keyboard, looping machine, beatboxer), dry comedian, wearer of cool geometric […]

  • Karin McKie
  • June 14, 2024
    • Dialogs , Essays , Events , Interviews , Lit , Live Lit , Stages , Talk show

    Dialogs: The Fire This Time with Roxane Gay at the Chicago Humanities Festival

    The Chicago Humanities Festival hosted writer Roxane Gay, in conversation with writer Lindsay Hunter, at the University of Chicago’s Lab School. Like recent CHF speaker and fellow Black female author […]

  • Karin McKie
  • November 12, 2023
    • Lit , Live Lit , Stages

    Dialogs: Patti Smith, a Woman of Depth, Artistry, and Love for Humanity, Lights up the Music Box

    When I hear the name Patti Smith, so many images are conjured in my mind. The 1970s at Club 950, No Exit, and Neo were teeming with people sporting mohawks […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • November 21, 2022
    • Lit , Live Lit , Stages , Talk show

    Dialogs: How Chicagoans and Russians Write—CHF’s Chat with Author George Saunders

    Oak Forest native to the “political left of Gandhi,” essayist and award-winning author George Saunders returned to Chicagoland to talk about writing with Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me host Peter Sagal. “The Art of the Short […]

  • Karin McKie
  • October 31, 2022
    • Live Lit , Stages , Theater Festival , Virtual

    Preview: Lifeline’s Fillet of Solo Festival Celebrates Personal—and Virtual—Storytelling

    Lifeline Theatre has launched its 25th annual Fillet of Solo Festival for a three-week run of virtual storytelling by some of the most vibrant and creative storytellers from Chicago and […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • January 23, 2022
    • Events , Lit , Live Lit , Stages

    Dialogs: Two Screenwriters Talk About Their New Novels—Utopia Avenue and Antkind

    It was just serendipity that the Chicago Humanities Festival scheduled two screenwriters with hot new novels two weeks in a row for their livestream show. Well, serendipity and the fact […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • July 18, 2020
    • Live Lit , Stages

    Historian Adam Hochschild on Activist Rose Pastor Stokes in Humanities Festival Event

    Rose Pastor Stokes was born poor, married rich and became an activist and agitator most of us have never heard of. Historian  Adam Hochschild tells her story in his new […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • May 1, 2020
    • Live Lit , Stages

    Three-Minute Record: Steep Ensemble Members Perform Carl Sandburg’s “Chicago”

    Like all our 250-some Chicago theaters, nothing’s on stage at Steep Theatre, that fine inventive company on Berwyn that, appropriately, used to be a grocery store. It’s one of those […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • April 28, 2020
    • Live Lit , Stages

    Preview: Fillet of Solo Festival Celebrates Live Lit With Storytelling Collectives and Solo Performers

    The 23rd Annual Fillet of Solo Festival, running January 10–26, celebrates Chicago’s storytelling and live lit scene at Lifeline Theatre and the Teal Room in Rogers Park. The festival, organized by […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • January 10, 2020
    • Beer and wine , Events , Interviews , Lit , Live Lit , Stages

    Rachel Maddow’s Blowout, Impeachment Porn and Martini Recipe at Chicago Humanities Festival

    Emmy Award-winning host of the eponymous MSNBC program Rachel Maddow made a book tour stop on October 12 at McCormick Place’s Arie Crown Theater, as part of the Chicago Humanities […]

  • Karin McKie
  • October 16, 2019
    • Events , Lit , Live Lit , Stages

    Third Coast Audio Festival Puts Chicago at the Center of Podcasting for Two Weeks

    Long before the podcast, there was Third Coast International Audio Festival. Since 2000, Third Coast has been a leader in audio storytelling, paving the way for this craft back when […]

  • Colin S. Smith
  • September 25, 2018
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