The Dil Pickle Club, modeled on the famous Bohemian nightspot, advocates nor propagates nothing. ¶ We are a public forum and a performance space. We welcome all ideas, methods, and manners of presentation. ¶ We meet four times a year in different locations around the city, with a different theme each time. ¶ Are you a nut about something? The Dil Pickle Club is looking for you! ¶ STEP HIGH STOOP LOW LEAVE YOUR DIGNITY OUTSIDE
Please send your name and e-mail address to dilpickleclub@gmail.com and we will then e-mail you information about joining the new Dil Pickle Club.
lots of love to everyone at the billy goat last night — thank you for performing, hosting, eating cheeseburgers, eating pickle cookies, cheering for the bulls, and being the best audience members in chicago. you’re all amazing. we mean that.
if you didn’t get a copy of the latest pickler — featured above and featuring comics from mlle caroline picard — it’s not too late! (plus it’s free, so why not ask for one?) just send your address to dilpickleclub at gmail dot com and we’ll get an issue to you toot sweet.
the next dil pickle club is SUPER/DUPER, august 2011. details coming soon!
The Dil Pickle Club presents
BLACK/WHITE
at the original Billy Goat Tavern
430 N Michigan - “butt in anytime”
May 22, 2011
7pm sharp - 10p
FREE, all-ages, open to the public
Holly Richards, zookeeper and beekeeper
on the black and white nature of nature
Bill Savage, professor and bartender
on Ben Hecht’s 1001 Afternoons in Chicago
the famous Jill Summers and Susie Kirkwood, sisters
with a shadow puppet show
Jerry Boyle teaches us to play Go
John Freyer introduces our Black Sox photobooth, then we take photos in it
A stranger walks around in a gorilla suit (you can take photos with him too)
Tiny Cover Band covers everyone, Velvet Underground to Rebecca Black
plus! the return of the Dil Pickler zine and many special treats
The Dil Pickle Club is Mairead Case, Paul Durica, Emerson Dameron, Jacob S. Knabb, Kenneth Morrison, Fred Sasaki, and Nell Taylor. This is our sixth public meeting. For information on our history, please visit The Chicago History Journal.
These are copies of The Dil Pickler: LOVE/DEATH, which we distributed at the Hideout last night. Thanks to all you bonkers genius contributors* - when we were making these at Kinko’s, everyone doing work there was like “oooh, neat!” and wanted a copy, too. For an original, email dilpickleclub at gmail dot com and Mairead will pop one in the mail ASAP. xox
* KATE SOTO | DJS BABY SLOTH & NINA RAMONE | MADDY SHARE & AUGUST SASAKI | TIM STAFFORD | NATE OLISON | ed. MAIREAD CASE
Tonight the Dil Pickle Club presents LOVE/DEATH at the Hideout, and releases the new Dil Pickler zine, edited by Mairead Case. To commemorate the occasion we give you this early Valentine—a comic from a contributor to the current issue:
the dil pickle club presents
LOVE/DEATH
at the hideout (1354 w wabansia)
thursday, february 10th - 7pm sharp
enter through the alley - look for the orange door with the green light
$5-10
ACT I
Melanie “George” Decelles Sings Persephone
Jenny Benevento Unveils Precious Moments Figurines’ Faces of Death
Ned Broderick: Paintings, Love and Death: A Tell ‘n’ Show
ACT II
Sayward Schoonmaker: The Swell and the Swoon: A Show ‘n’ Tell
Richard Lindberg on Lonely Hearts and Serial Killers
Jerry Boyle’s Day of the Dead Shrine and Group Ritual
THROUGHOUT: Songs from Honey & The Buffalo (Kennedy Greenrod and Maggie Schultz); Temporary Lovers’ and Memorial Tattoos by Harlan Thompson (Mother); Emily Riehl’s Matchmaking Algorithm (a game!); St. Valentine’s Day Massacre Tableau Photobooth (Bang! Shoot!), Cocktails and Merchandise, More.
AFTERWARDS: Dancing with the Windy City Soul DJs
JJ—Windy City Soul Club
Lady J—The Merge
John Ciba—East of Edens Soul Express
MLE—The Merge/East of Edens Soul Express
PLUS: The Return of THE DIL PICKLER Zine!
Secret Surprise Celebrity Guests!
The Dil Pickle Club to be revived at the Nightingale
Radical Chicago Renaissance nightspot starts again again.
The new DIL PICKLE CLUB
will meet in the Nightingale for FIGHT/FLIGHT
1084 North Milwaukee on Thursday, December 9
7pm to 11pm
How to Take a Punch by Bill Hillmann
Chicago Park District Boxers by Fred Sasaki w/photos by Jacob S. Knabb
Nathan Leopold’s Warblers by Paul Durica
Flight Painting by Peggy Macnamara
“Ode to a Nightingale” by John Keats by Don Share
Rocket Launch by Nat Ward and Kenneth Morrison
The Dil Pickle Club will be a discussion group with prominent invited speakers. Subjects to be discussed will be controversial, off-beat and intellectual. Emphasis will be placed on fight and flight for the night. St. Nicholas day will also be celebrated. Bring a pair of clean shoes for donation to the Share Your Soles Foundation for a gift from Sinterklaas.
Bill Hillmann is a writer and storyteller from Chicago. He is contributing editor for F Magazine and the staff writer for Criminal Class Press. His award winning audio essays have appeared on WBEZ, NPR, and PRI. He is also the founder and host of the Windy City Story Slam.
Peggy Macnamara has been the artist in residence and associate of the Zoology Department at the Field Museum for the past twenty years, where she also teaches drawing and painting, for the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the author of Painting Wildlife in Watercolor, Illinois Insects and Spiders, and Architecture by Birds and Insects. The Art of Migration is due out in 2011.
