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Alice: Born on the 4th of July

Jul
01
Joe Mason
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TeaInstead of lighting fireworks this 4th of July, why not follow the rabbit hole down Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland? On July 4, 1862, Lewis Carroll first told the tale.

Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge …

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V Is For Villains Masquerade Loft Party

Jun
24
Joe Mason
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villainsfizzbar2Industrial Music Works and Vicarious Venues present…

The Masquerade Loft Party at Fizz Bar

June 27, 2014, 8 pm
featuring

V is For Villains…

Candy Town

Colonel Gunn’s Wild West Music Show

Vourteque (After)
Special Guest from ROUGE Chicago’s

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Steampunk Day at the Field Museum

Jun
19
The Reverend Captain Samuel Flint
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fb-banner-01 Steampunk Chicago is pleased to present in partnership with Chicago’s Field Museum Magic of the Midway, celebrating their 1893 World’s Fair exhibit!

Calling all steampunks in, around, and beyond Chicago! Come to the The Field Museum for a one …

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Chanute’s Gliders

Jun
17
Joe Mason
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Chanute-Herring1896BiplaneGlider_1_P2On June 22, 1896, Octave Chanute went to Miller Junction, IN, to pursue his dream of heavier-than-air flying machines. The civil engineer had designed the Chicago Stock Yards, the Kansas City Stock Yards and the first bridge to cross the …

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Yes I Said Yes I Will Yes Celebrate Bloomsday

Jun
10
Joe Mason
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james-joyceBloomsday celebrates June 16, 1904: the day captured in James Joyce’s Ulysses. The Modernist novel recounts Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey as a day in the life of Dublin advertising agent Leopold Bloom.

Ulysses broke ground with its stream …

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War… On Drugs

Jun
03
Joe Mason
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Chinese_officers_tear_down_the_British_flag_on_the_arrowChina’s Imperial Commissioner Lin Zexu seized 20,000 chests of opium from foreign traders. On June 3, 1839, the twenty-three day process of the destruction of the opium at Humen commenced. It was reduced to poisonous slurry and drained into the …

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The Riot of Spring

May
27
Joe Mason
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Russian Ballets At Paris In 1913At the end of the Belle Époque, art produced a riot. The confluence of music and dance at the premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring caused an incensed audience to throw fists at each other and objects at …

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Michael Coorlim: Self-Published Steampunk

May
20
Joe Mason
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cogsmenMSelf-publishing saved Michael Coorlim’s life. After stints as a retail clerk, a security guard and a janitor in a mental hospital, he directed his efforts into supporting himself through writing. It came with lessons in self-promotion, marketing, and cover …

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H.H. Holmes Hanged!

May
13
Joe Mason
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Dr._Henry_Howard_Holmes_(Herman_Webster_Mudgett)Acknowledged as America’s first serial killer, H.H. Holmes was hanged on May 7, 1896. He lured men, women and children from the World’s Fair to his “murder castle” in Englewood. A fraud and a liar, it is difficult to ascertain …

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A Night in the Haymarket

May
06
Paul Durica
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Haymarket Anarchy

On the evening of the first Tuesday in May 1886, 180 officers of the Chicago police department marched into a crowd double that size made up of anarchists, striking laborers, and the merely curious. The crowd had gathered earlier that …

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