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The eighth annual Chicago Sketchfest (Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival) kicks off tonight with over 100 comedy...
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Merry New Year!Kick off this year's trivia with that perennial favorite: What was the best book of 2008? Was it by...
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In which Shakespeare play is nature praised against man's caprice with the lines:"Blow, blow, thou winter...
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In which seminal Chicago bildungsroman does Einhorn treat the narrator to his first whore? The bordello is not far...
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The Billy Goat Tavern was originally located across the street from what "madhouse"?LAST WEEK'S TRIVIAThe...
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This week's trivia has two parts: What literary-friendly tavern is named after the alter ego of which writer? LAST...
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The "blue and gigantic" eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are the focus of this week's trivia, which is a...
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This famed short story writer whose poignant-comic social satire has been compared to Vonnegut will help produce...
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Tonight at The Harold, Carol Marin interviews the avatar of New Journalism, Tom Wolfe, whose pioneering book The...
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This month, in lieu of its regular monthly night, what reading series will be hosting two excellent events, one...
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- UPTOWN POETRY SLAM, Sundays 7PM, $6, The Green Mill
- TWILIGHT TALES, most Mondays,7:30, $4 (suggested), Red Lion Pub
- RUI: READING UNDER THE INFLUENCE, first Wednesday/month, 7:30, $3, Sheffield's
- THE RECONSTRUCTION ROOM, first Wednesday/month, 8PM, FREE, Black Rock Bar
- 2ND STORY, second Sunday/month, 7PM, $10, Webster's Wine Bar
- QUICKIES! second Tuesday/month, 7:30, FREE, Innertown Pub
- RED ROVER READING SERIES, second Saturdays, no one's quite sure where and when
- LITERARY GANGS OF CHICAGO, third Tuesday (October-May), 6:30, FREE, Musuem of Contemporary Arts
- LOCAL AUTHOR NIGHT, third Wednesday/month, 7:30, FREE, The Book Cellar
- PALABRA PURA POETRY, third Wednesday (except Aug and Dec), 8PM, FREE, usu. @ California Clipper
- SAPPHO'S SALON, third Saturday/month, 7PM, $8 (suggested), Women and Children First Bookstore
- WINDY CITY STORY SLAM, last Tuesday/month, 8PM, $5 (suggested), Quennect 4 Gallery
- SUNDAY SALON CHICAGO, last Sunday/month, 7:30, FREE, The Charleston Bar
- THE TAMALE HUT READING SERIES, variable Saturdays/month, 7:30, FREE, The Tamale Hut Cafe
- THE PARLOR READS, variable monthly
- ORANGE ALERT READING SERIES, fourth Sunday, FREE, The Whistler
- BOOKSLUT READING SERIES, variable monthly, 7:30, FREE, Hopleaf
