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By NCTV17/YouTube
He’s in a rare club, being a player and an announcer for both Chicago baseball teams. And now Steve Stone has written a book about his experiences in the national pastime. The former pitcher recently signed copies of Said in Stone: Your Game, My Way for fans at Anderson’s Bookshop in Naperville. NCTV17’s Justin Zipser steps up to the plate and tells us more.
Posted on June 27, 2011
By The Poetry Foundation
Singer-songwriter Neko Case will perform an intimate concert before 180 fans as part of the Poetry Foundation’s Open House at 61 West Superior Street. The special show will take place Saturday, June 25, at 8:30 p.m. in the new building’s performance space.
Ninety pairs of free tickets to the performance will be awarded via a lottery drawing. Fans may enter the lottery by going to poetryfoundationnekocase.eventbrite.com.
The Poetry Foundation will accept entries from 12:00 p.m. on Monday, June 20, to 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, June 21. A drawing will take place after the entries have been received, and winners will be notified by email on June 22.
Posted on June 21, 2011
Read ’em and weep
The Beachwood has learned that Mayor Rahm Emanuel has settled on his picks for the city’s One Book, One Chicago program.
1. The Plan: Big Ideas For America
2. The Prince
3. The Ballet Companion: A Dancer’s Guide to the Technique, Traditions, and Joys of Ballet
4. The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids
5. Boss
Posted on June 20, 2011
By The Newberry Library
Since the 1970s, the Chicago Calligraphy Collective and the Newberry have worked together to advance the study of calligraphy and to promote the art to a broader public.
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Collective’s annual juried show held here at the Newberry until June 25th.
Posted on June 17, 2011
By Steve Rhodes
“Perhaps the most important moment in gender politics in America occurred at a kitchen table in Chicago late in 1953,” Tom Matlack writes at Huffington Post.
“A young man named Hugh Hefner borrowed a thousand dollars from his mom to publish a magazine that was originally going to be called Stag Party. But apparently there was already a Stag magazine about horses. At that kitchen table, Hefner put together the first issue of his new magazine and decided to name it Playboy after an automobile company that his mom had once worked at. He featured Marilyn Monroe on the cover . . .
“In the years since launching his magazine, Hefner has sparked a profound change in American culture that continues to frame the way we look at sex and gender. The first mass-market magazine to show naked women, Playboy gave birth to pornography as we have come to know it – a business that has blossomed into arguably the biggest single media industry in our country.
“No other man has had as profound an impact on both the conscious and sub-conscious way men look and think about women and their bodies. From Madison Avenue to Hollywood the way women are portrayed is either a direct result, or a direct rebellion against, the boulder that Hefner started rolling down that hill 50 years ago.”
Posted on June 15, 2011
By Micah Tripp/YouTube
“This has to be the most amazing bookstore ever! This place is a mess and extremely unorganized. There a so many bookshelves and they are placed so close together that really only one person at a time can be in-between them.”
Posted on June 13, 2011
If you think it, it will come
1. “I can’t believe they sell this shit.”
Posted on May 19, 2011
By The Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
The Jane Addams Children’s Book Awards are given annually to the children’s picture books and longer books published the preceding year that effectively promote the cause of peace, social justice, world community, and the equality of the sexes and all races as well as meeting conventional standards for excellence.
The Jane Addams Children’s Book Awards have been presented annually since 1953 by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and the Jane Addams Peace Association.
Winner of books for younger children:
Emma’s Poem: The Voice of the Statue of Liberty, written by Linda Glaser with paintings by Claire A. Nivola, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company is the winner in the Books for Younger Children category.
Posted on May 18, 2011
By Kiel Phegley
Kiel Phegley of comics blog The Cool Kids Table and his erstwhile companion Kegmeister hit up seven Chicago comic shops for Free Comic Book Day 2011.
Posted on May 11, 2011
