What I Found When I Cleaned Out My Childhood Bedroom Closet For The First Time Since Sixth Grade (A Comprehensive List) old cassette tapes (mostly audiobooks) t-shirts from middle and high school extracurricular activities and theatre productions costume pieces homecoming dresses vintage clothing (not in a cute way) several baby pictures of myself old diaries… Continue reading What I Found: Childhood Bedroom Closet Edition
Category: Non-Fiction
For Your Listening Pleasure: Uku-Tuesday!
I'll admit it: I've had a blue couple of days. We opened the ren faire this past weekend and it was a nonstop roller coaster of awesome, kickin, rock-and-roll Renaissance fun, but it was also full of pit stops and hurdles and all sorts of unexpected hesitations and adjustments. Then, on Monday morning, I woke up… Continue reading For Your Listening Pleasure: Uku-Tuesday!
[insert wedding idiom here]: I’m getting married!
As many of you probably already know... ~*~*I'm engaged!*~*~ Yes, that's right, some poor sod was fool enough to fall for my feminine wiles the Fella and I are going to get married! The proposal was a dream come true, just as our relationship has been from the get-go, and I couldn't be more grateful for… Continue reading [insert wedding idiom here]: I’m getting married!
Theatre Review: Otherworld Theatre Company’s “Queen Amarantha”
Arriving in the cool, quiet City Lit theatre space Thursday night for Otherworld Theatre Company's newest production, I am immediately transported to a time and a place not my own. The intimate but flexible stage is lit in blues and greens, with ivy crawling the walls of a crumbling castle ruin, and through the high-above birdsong and rustling… Continue reading Theatre Review: Otherworld Theatre Company’s “Queen Amarantha”
Bigger on the Inside: Amanda Palmer Ninja Gig in Chicago
I love Amanda Palmer. She is, most of the time, a maelstrom of artistry: a musician, a songwriter, a performer, a dreamer, now a writer, a media target, and a controversial topic for many. She is a beacon of light and patron saint to self-proclaimed weirdoes, artists, punks, goths, in-betweeners, loners and overall a vast spectrum… Continue reading Bigger on the Inside: Amanda Palmer Ninja Gig in Chicago
Alyson Grauer 