At my high school, we didn’t have detention, we had trash pick-up. You walked around at lunch with a plastic bucket and a claw grabber. The goal was to have us sheepishly collect litter in the bushes, banished from our peers, but the custom was to go up to groups of kids and hold out …
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Nov 05 2024
Story Luck Potluck Show
The Story Luck ShowFeb 2ndTheater Witt 1229 W. Belmont Ave6:30pm Potluck7:00pm ShowTickets 20 or free with a shared dish. Come! Your favorite potluck show is always a crowd pleaser. There will be 4 walk-up story tellers and 4 featured story tellers. Walk up tellers get 5 minutes to tell a story from their hearts. It …
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Mar 04 2021
Danette Mark – Featuring @ Story Luck’s Workshop! Workshop!
Danette Mark is an artist who chooses to express herself through the medium of stand-up comedy. She has been writing and performing comedy for the past 8 years in the Chicago-land area. She received formal training at Second City in Chicago in 2012. Danette’s style of comedy is anecdotal where she loves to joke and tell stories about her out-of-box way of thinking which affects all aspects of her life especially how she relates to others.
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May 28 2015
Girl With a Face Tattoo – A Month of Gaslighting
I used to help out with a comics studio called Sunbros Studios, and this year for the comics convention C2E2 I returned to the booth with Beijing opera-style Monkey King face paint, to emulate the main character of their book Monkey Fist (an adaptation of the Journey to the West tale). Afterwards, I met up …
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May 13 2015
20 Chicagoans Map Chicago
“Excuse me!” “Excuse– oh I’m so sorry ma’am, you’re eating.” “Yes, okay! I’m doing a quick little project here. Can you draw me a map of the Chicago neighborhoods?” For this month’s prompt, A Month of Maps, I briefly considered revisiting a Ghost Bikes of Chicago project, before I stumbled on this crowd-sourced world map, …
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May 12 2015
Journey to the End of the Night Chicago June 2015
It’s happening! Journey to the End of the Night! The most fun you’ll have all summer. June 13th, 2015 Facebook Invite An unusual thing happened this year, the spring Journey was cancelled. It went out in a facebook post Story Luck didn’t notice and then a week or so later we got a phone call …
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Aug 01 2014
The 151 from Stockton
So confession… I’m kind of a crappy Chicagoan (let me put in the caveat that I’m from the Western suburbs before I have the real city dwellers jumping down my throat). I’m a crappy Chicagoan in more than a few ways. I prefer my hotdogs with plain ketchup, and I tend to root for the …
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Jul 07 2014
Do Talk to Strangers
It’s difficult to find a context in which I can compliment strangers and they are okay with it. This is not the fault of the strangers. This is because I am a tall white dude, and compliments from tall white dudes historically come with ulterior motives. Generally, people who I compliment assume I want something …
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Jul 04 2014
Its Back! Robot Apocalypse: Journey to the End of the Night
Click below for more information about Journey to the End of the Night Is there a need to fear an Apocalypse if we all end up being immortal robots? RAJEN, asks you to explore the city, but it also gets you to question what it means to be human. Story Luck is inviting you! and …
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