Twilight Tales Event

Published on May 15, 2006 0 Comments
May ’06
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Twilight Tales EventSaturday, April 29th, 4:00 PMfree
With Featured Performers:
 
Martin Mundt the author of “The Crawling Abattoir” and numerous short stories. “The work of newcomer Martin Mundt is sick, insane, surreal, and thoroughly enjoyable. I’m looking forward to more.” ? F. Paul Wilson, author of The Keep and Deep As The Marrow
 
John Weagley is the author of ” The Undertow of Small Town Dreams” and editor of numerous anthologies. He’s a member of the Horror Writers Association, Mystery Writers of America and a founding member of Iguana Productions. He lives in Chicago with his two cats, Buster and Lolita.
 
John Everson is winner of the Horror Writers Association’s Bram Stoker Award for first novel, “Covenant.” Signing
 
Founded in 1993 by award-winning novelist Tina Jens as a weekly fiction reading series, Twilight Tales has brought hundreds of authors from Chicago and around the world to perform their stories live before an audience. More than a decade later, weekly shows are still held every Monday night upstairs at the Red Lion Restaurant & Pub 2446 N. Lincoln Ave. across the street from the Biograph Theater.
 
Early in its life, Twilight Tales branched out and began collecting the fiction of many of its readers in a series of “sherbet” colored chapbooks. In recent years, the publishing arm of Twilight Tales has moved into producing professional trade paperback anthologies and single author collections.
 
Twilight Tales readers and anthology contributors have included visiting best-selling authors like Max Allan Collins, Barbara D’Amato, Brian Lumley, Yvonne Navarro, Karen Taylor, Melanie Tem and Gahan Wilson, as well as nationally known local novelists like Robert Weinberg, Gene Wolfe, Algis Budrys, Jay Bonansinga, and many more. The books are available at all Twilight Tales shows, as well as at a variety of bookstores, book and art fairs and genre fiction fandom conventions throughout the year. Over the past several years, Twilight Tales has also featured local, domestic and international authors’ fiction as a part of its web site. Twilight Tales is a volunteer-run venture, and many Chicago area authors and fiction-lovers have contributed to its success over the years.

Handmade Electronic Music Workshop and lecture with author Nicolas Collins

Published on May 13, 2006 0 Comments
May ’06
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Handmade Electronic Music Workshop and lecture with author Nicolas CollinsSaturday, May 13th, 7:00 PMFREE
 
Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking provides a long-needed, practical, and engaging introduction for students of electronic music, installation and sound-art to the craft of making ? as well as creatively cannibalizing ? electronic circuits for artistic purposes. Designed for practioners and students of electronic art, it provides a guided tour through the world of electronics, encouraging artists to get to know the inner workings of basic electronic devices so they can creatively use them for their own ends. Handmade Electronic Music introduces the basic of practical circuitry while along the way instructing the student in basic electronic principles from the practical point of view of an artist. It teaches a style of intuitive and sensual experimentation that has been lost in this day of prefabricated electronic musical instruments whose inner workings are not open to experimentation. It encourages artists to transcend their fear of electronic technology to launch themselves into the pleasure of working creatively with all kinds of analog circuitry.
 
Nicolas Collins, an active composer and performer of electronic music, is a Professor of Sound at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has led Hacking workshops around the world, from Beijing to Brussels, and has worked with John Cage, Alvin Lucier, David Tudor, and many other masters of modern music.
 
Additional information can be found at www.nicolascollins.com

Xeric Grant winner Cathy Hannah

Published on May 6, 2006 0 Comments
May ’06
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Xeric Grant winner Cathy Hannah presents her graphic novella Winter BeardSaturday, May 6th, 5:30 PMFREE
 
Cathy Hannah is a 25-year-old comics artist, art historian, and self-proclaimed nerd. She was awarded the fall 2005 Xeric Grant to self-publish her graphic novella, Winter Beard. An 80 page autobiography chronicling one winter on Cathy?s life, Winter Beard tells the story of having a crush on your best friend and all the scheming, hoping, & sadness of telling them how you feel.
 
Cathy Hannah is a graduate student at The School of the Art Institute in art history. She attended The Savannah College of Art and Design for her undergrad and got a degree in Sequential Art. This is her first solo-published work and comics debut.

Ducky DooLittle Event

Published on April 29, 2006 0 Comments
Apr ’06
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Ducky DooLittleauthor ofSEX WITH THE LIGHTS ONSigning and Q & AMay 17th 7PMfree
 
Few sex educators are as well-matched to the task of dispensing safe, honest, affirming sex advice as Ducky Doolittle, a former Times Square stripper, who emerged from behind the peepshow glass to climb to the top ranks of advisors on all matters sexual. For more than a decade, she has toured the country with her one-woman show, visiting hundreds of cities, where she has answered sex advice queries from thousands of women and men-partnered and singled, straight and gay. Ducky’s winning humor and rich knowledge of human sexuality have allowed complete strangers to open up and reveal their most intimate thoughts.
 
In Sex with the Lights On she shares for the first time the most-often asked questions, which include: What’s the best oral sex technique? Does every woman have a G-spot-and what are the top tips for locating her own? Can men have multiple orgasms? How does a couple introduce anal sex into their relationship? Why do anti-depressants lower sex drive and how can that be avoided? Ducky not only answers each question with a sex-positive open-mind, she gives readers permission to laugh and relax and to create the sex lives that best suit their own desires.
 
ADVANCE REVIEWS:
“Absolutely essential guide for everyone with a body! Incredibly detailed, informative, compassionate, funny, wise and sexy as hell.”- MARGARET CHO
 
“Something sexy, smart, and inspirational happens every time you turn a page of this book. Ducky is a national erotic treasure.” – SUSIE BRIGHT
 
“Ducky is a delight! She?s a brilliant sex educator – truly one of a kind. Besides being lots of fun to read, this body-positive, heartfelt book will deliver sex skills you can use tonight and can carry with you the rest of your life.” – ANNIE SPRINKLE.
 
More info at: www.duckydoolittle.com
 

Madison Clell author of Cuckoo

Published on April 28, 2006 0 Comments
Apr ’06
28
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Madison Clell author of CuckooFriday April 28th8:00PM Free
 
Former multiple personality disordered Madison Clell will be answering questions and reading from her acclaimed graphic novel CUCKOO. A compilation of 13 comics issues under the same name, its readers include author/lawyer Andrew Vachss, who called CUCKOO
 
” ..a gleaming scalpel, expertly wielded against the tumor of evil. This is a stunning achievement, both artistically and personally, graphically illustrating the cosmic distance between ‘survivor’ and ‘transcender.’ ”
 
Dr. Patch Adams, who subscribed to the entire comics series said, ” ..I would make CUCKOO required reading. “, and then he penned the novel’s intro.
 
Madison is one of the featured artists for Chicago’s Cultural Center show, HUMANS BEING, and a participant in Bodies of Work; The Chicago Festival of Disability Arts & Culture this April 20-30.