Tom Lynch

Another Chicago Magazine and Poetry magazine team up this Monday night at Hideout for Another Damn Benefit, which will fund ACM's thirtieth anniversary anthology. (Full disclosure: I serve as an associate editor at ACM, and Newcity contributing writer John Beer is one the night's readers.) The evening's lineup is splendidly solid--fiction and poetry readings by Robyn Schiff, Dan Beachy-Quick, Simone Muench, Peter Markus, Chris Glomski and the aforementioned Beer, plus musical performances by Aras & the Volodkas, The Judy Green and DJs Birdie Num Num and The Aspirin Kid. Admission is cheap--a mere $5, folks--and with an endless supply of canned PBR on hand, the combination of literature and alcohol should be deadly.

Another Chicago Benefit lands on June 12 at Hideout, 1354 West Wabansia, (773)227-4433, at 7pm. $5. (2006-06-06)

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