Shameful high school journals, poems and songs at MORTIFIED CHICAGO

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Remember high school, when you spent hours composing a journal entry about the latest crush, the ugliest girl at school or why gym class sucked so bad?

At The Beat Kitchen (2100 W Belmont) on Thursday, May 6 at 8:30pm, yours truly, Brooke Allen, Shylo Bisnett, Janet Davies, Jason Economus, & Dyan Flores will unearth those horribly mortifying journals for audience members who want to re-live the drama, the pain…and then laugh at how hilarious it all is.

Art Chicago 2010 Panel: Social Media Strategies in Chicago’s Art Community

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If you’re ready to get over the old hat “death of the art critic” conversation and learn about how useful and—dare I say it?—fun social media can be, find your way to this Art Chicago panel. Follow tweets about the panel by searching for #artsocialmedia during the panel discussion. To add your own tweets, just [...]

Review: David Ford in ART PAPERS (March/April 2010)

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I had the pleasure of writing about David Ford’s show Relax (November 20, 2009-January 9, 2010) at the Dolphin Gallery in Kansas City. It appeared in the  March/April 2010 edition of Art Papers magazine.

Prepare to be Mortified: “The Dish Song” at Cole’s Open Mike

Alicia performing "The Dish Song" at Cole's Open Mike on April 21, 2010

At the April 21 Cole’s Open Mike, co-hosted by hilarious stand-up comediennes Mo Welch and Cameron Esposito, I re-visited “The Dish Song,” a tragic, overly dramatic piece with a touch of ghetto fabulous that I wrote at age 19 for acoustic guitar. Named for my “straight” girl obsession’s alter-ego, Dishquana, I wrote this song as [...]

My first shot at stand-up comedy

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Stand-up comedy is a lot harder than it looks. It’s you, a mike, and a bunch of folks who you may or may not know. Don’t believe me? Watch this video my first time at Cole’s open mike, which happens every Wednesday at 9:30pm. The hilarious Cameron Esposito hosts: This week I’ll be revisiting some [...]

Peregrine Honig’s WIDOW on Broke & Beautiful

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One may be curious as to the product of a mid-western, culturally immersed, visual artist’s take on fashion — the industry, the clothes, the pretention and, of course, the art itself. Upon receiving the massive 5lb. “magazine” (more like an atlas-sized portable gallery), I was eager to see how linear the connections between the worlds [...]

Performance Anxiety Screening & Reception: Gallery 400 on April 7 at 8pm

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PERFORMANCE ANXIETY Gallery 400 at University of Illinois at Chicago 400 S. Peoria Wednesday, April 7 8pm Art critic Alicia Eler and video art collector Jefferson Godard present Performance Anxiety, a program of short video works dealing with performances of cultural identity. In navigating complicated understandings of gender, race, class, sexuality, or existence in on- and [...]

PRESENT Magazine article about Widow, A Fashion Magazine by Peregrine Honig with essay by Alicia Eler

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Designed to be a fashion magazine aesthetically and functionally, the inside cover features a table of contents and credits: the front cover calligraphy is by Yohan “Scribbles” and the back cover art by Maiko Kuzunishi. Further inside the publication, readers will find a fold-out poster, a credits/contributor page, an essay by Zane Fischer that aptly [...]