Andrew Huff @me3dia

The next installment of Tuesday Funk, your favorite eclectic monthly reading series, is June 7! Join us in the upstairs bar at Hopleaf for readings by Sara Krueger, Rana Khoury, Parker Molloy, Norman …

My favorite beer festival in Portland. All-ages, free to attend for non drinkers, and a wonderful and strange selection of small beers. Highly recommended.

20x2 Chicago is a live event where 20 people are asked the same question and given two minutes each to answer in whichever way they choose. The results may take any form, from spoken word to music to …

We are really excited for the next Miss Spoken show, our live lit show that features non-dude performers. The theme for the night will be “Sibling Rivalry.”

We have a great line-up!

Kenzie Sei…

Join Mercedes Landazuri and friends every Thursday for live Brazilian jazz, standards, and a little R. Kelly thrown in for good measure. No cover, all the fun. 21+

Unlimited bacon dishes; beer, wine and cocktails galore. It’s Friday night, why not make it Baconfest? Tickets

In 1952, Encyclopedia Britannica published Mortimer Adler’s monumental Great Books of the Western World series—431 works by 71 authors—covering core ideas of the Western canon. Inspired by these works…

WAX TRAX! Films presents two test screenings and panel discussions of the upcoming documentary, “INDUSTRIΛL ΛCCIDENT: The Story of Wax Trax! Records”.

A panel Q&A session follows after each screeni…

Tuesday Funk, the eclectic monthly reading series where good beer and good writing mix, returns April 4 with readings by Felix Jung, Tracy Harford-Porter, Melissa Wiley, Kell…

As part of a citywide celebration of Gwendolyn Brooks marking the one-hundredth anniversary of her birth, the Newberry will gather poets, scholars, historians, and archivists to discuss the historical…

Join Begyle Brewing for the release of their Barrel Aged Imperial Brown Ale, Maybe Next Year! The beer has been aged six months in Heaven Hill whiskey barrels, then bottled into 22oz bombers availabl…

Join the march to support, safeguard, celebrate, and encourage science.

Take a Stand For Science
A recent focus on science and how scientific findings impact public policy has put a spotlight o…

CHIRP Radio’s premier storytelling and music series The First Time returns to Martyrs’, Wednesday, April 12th! We pair our featured reader’s true story with live so…

Stars Align brings artists from across Chicago and the musical universe together for one-of-a-kind live collaborations.

Coming together for the next Stars Align session are singer/songwriter/compo…

The Ghost Planet, a monthly late night variety show, returns to Township! Join your gracious host and Interplanetary Cultural Ambassador Frank Okay and their crew of weirdos for another trip into deep…

Journalist Rick Kogan and musician Michael Miles tell the story of legendary Chicago columnist Mike Royko. Tickets are $10 online or at the door. Doo…

No cover, 21+

It’s time for the Chicago Abortion Fund‘s annual Bowl-A-Thon! We’re lacing up our bowling shoes and getting to work! Join us to #FundAbortionBuildPower. Your par…

Technori presents its April showcase, featuring a keynote by Al Goldstein, CEO of Avant Credit and presentations by:
• Jacob Ong, CEO of Errund
• Lalli Marrato, CEO of Fe…

Free! All ages! Swing by Field Notes Midwest HQ and enjoy an evening of zines, prints, and self-published art from a selection of local vendors including Quimby’s Bookstore, Jay Ryan, Phineas X. Jones…

Andrew Huff hosts 20x2 Chicago, a show in which 20 people from all different walks of creative life – writers, musicians, filmmakers, web geeks and other bon vivants – get two minutes each to answer…

Another month, another stellar collection of readers at Tuesday Funk! Please join us in the upstairs lounge at Hopleaf for readings by Mikki Kendall, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Anne Elizabeth Moore, Mare Swa…

In celebration of May the 4th (Be With You), the Whistler welcomes Figrin D’an and the Modal Nodes (performed by Silent Reading) for live sets at 8:30 and 11pm and offers a menu of Star Wars-inspired …

The DDC Spring Tour rolls into Chicago for an afternoon meet-up and Super DDC/FN Pop Up Shop. Meet Field Notes co-founder Aaron Draplin and the rest of the FN crew. We’ll have Field Notes rarities fro…

Every pair of tickets comes with a copy of Mastodon’s forthcoming album, either on CD or as a digital download. All ages.

Tuesday Funk, Chicago’s favorite eclectic reading series, returns to the upstairs lounge at Hopleaf in Andersonville for its 106th episode! The weather will probably be beautiful, so we’ve lined up Lo…

Please join us for the 10th Annual Experimental Garage Sale organized by http://www.GetLoFi.com and hosted by the Experimental Sound Studio of Chicago.

Vendors from all over the Midwest converge t…

What happens when you take twenty handpicked creatives and luminaries, give them each two minutes before a live audience and the same (fuzzy) question to unravel? That’s the premise behind 20x2, the p…

What happens when you take twenty handpicked creatives and luminaries, give them each two minutes before a live audience and the same (fuzzy) question to unravel? That’s the premise behind 20x2, the p…

Come out to Untitled for cocktails, food, and laughs at Better Government Association’s annual summer comedy FUNraiser. Three of Chicago’s preeminent comedians, Adam Burke, Reena Calm, and Calvin Evan…

Get back in the swing of things post-Labor Day with your favorite eclectic reading series! Tuesday Funk is back Sept. 5! Join us in the upstairs lounge of Hopleaf in Andersonville as we welcome Mary W…

All I need to see was “that dog. playing all of Retreat From the Sun.”

But also: Jawbreaker! NIN! A bunch of other bands I was too young to afford to see!

Front 242 • KMFDM • Stabbing Westward • Cold Cave • Ohgr • Severed Heads • Pankow • Assemblage 23 • Drab Majesty • Ivardensphere • Acumen Nation • Statiqbloom • ∆aimon • Lord of the Lost • Cyanotic • …