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Connie Lawrence and live dancersSaturday, April 7th, 7:00 PM
 
This is a reading/signing/performance to tie in with the novels Amazons: Sexy Tales of Strong Women and Sex & Satisfcation both by Connie Lawrence. A ?teaser\” or two will be read in conjunction with a cooperative dance performance.
 
About the performers:
AUTHOR: Connie Lawrence, has published both globally and nationally, including Amazons: Sexy Tales of Strong Women (Thunder Mouth?s Press), For The Girls and Tit-Elation. (subscription webzines), Sex & Satisfaction (Accent Press/Xcite Books)
 
DANCERS: Sue Yan: What started out as a hobby has turned into a passion: salsa, cha cha, bachata and merengue, Argentine Tango for 2 years. Performed and taught for: Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly (annually); Esperanza Community Service, Formed a small dance ensemble dancing with a focus on performing/teaching non-profit organizations, fundraisers, charities, etc… Studied belly dancing…
 
Patrick Thomas Sabor Latino Barbados Performances: Chicago Crystal Ball 2004 and 2005, United States Amateur Ballroom Dance Association Chicago,2004; Kentucky 2004; St Paul 2005. Dance Chicago, 2005; Indiana Dance Challenge 2005; Windy City Showcase Ball 2005 Dance styles: International Latin American Rhythm Salsa, Merengue. Won the United States Amateur Ballroom Dance Performance team regional and national championship for 2005.
 

Marry SoderstromThursday, March 29th, 7:30 PM
 
Mary Soderstrom, a Montreal-based writer, whose new book Green City: People, Nature and Urban Places has recently been published by V?hicule Press of Montreal. With nine books to her credit, Soderstrom is well-known to Canadian readers. Her new book uses 11 cities–Chicago among them–as starting points for exploring the ways that people have brought nature into cities over history.
 
This reading will be co-sponsored by the Center for Neighborhood Technology, and someone from the center will introduce Soderstrom.

Mitch O? ConnellFriday, March 23th, 7:00 PMFREE
 
Mitch O? Connell will be on hand to sign copies of his new book Mitch O’Connell Tattoos. It’s 264 pages of his best tattoo designs.
 
From the back of the book:
Are you the type that gets a kick from sin-streaked, steaming hot tattoo designs full of beauties, cuties and nudies?! Then you’ve just hit the jackpot!!
 
In your sweaty grip is the greatest collection of lewd, rude and crude, yet cute, cuddly and curvaceous tattoo art ever published ? all of it itching to be engraved on your flesh (or just drooled over beneath the covers late at night)!
 
Fill up on a bountiful buffet of salacious selections overflowing with high-heeled, hell-bound dames hoisting high-balls; pile on a side of tasteless and trashy; top it off with a pinch of the adorable and the deplorable, and you?ve got yourself one satisfying book ? THIS book!
 
What people are saying:
 
?It’s the highbrow of lowbrow where every hour is happy hour.???Bizarre Magazine
 
?Awesome tattoo flash art! Beautiful and brilliant???Club International Magazine
 
?He is one of the defining artists of his generation.???Tabu Tattoo Magazine
 
?Kitschy and wacky, pop cultureish and slick, full of pin up girls, retro americana, cute wide eyed babes and traditional tattoo images all incorporating a sense of humor that is exclusively Mitch O’Connell.???Tattoos Downunder Magazine