Month: January 2008

  • No Halfsteppin’: Broadcast Premiere of a Documentary Film by MAPH alums

    MAPH alums Tom Bailey and Brendan Kredell’s documentary film, No Halfsteppin’, will air on WTTW-11 for its first broadcast on Thursday, January 31 (10:30pm CST), and on Sunday, February 3 (12midnight, CST [note that this is technically Monday, February 4]).

  • More from MAPH Alums at the Caffeine Theatre

    Two University of Chicago Alums team up for a “darkly fascinating,” “ambitious”* theatre piece: Caffeine Theatre presents: Like the Moon Behind the Clouds by Donald Gecewicz (AB ’76) directed by Jennifer Shook (MAPH ’05) And this week, Caffeine brings you two special events with these U of C artists: Wednesday, January 30: A free reading…

  • MAPH Alum Shaindel Beers published on NPR web site

    MAPH Alum Shaindel Beers (’00) has recently had her poem, “First Love” published on A Prairie Home Companion Web site, an online version of Garrison Keller’s National Public Radio show. Documenting this great accomplishment and publishing a copy of “First Love,” Beers was interviewed in the Eastern Oregonian in which she talks about getting her…

  • Successful AfterMAPH event at Jake Melnick’s gives former social hours a run for their money

    We here at MAPH would like to thank all of the alums who came out (despite the cold) and made the MAPH Alum Happy Hour a very successful and enjoyable event! Old friends met and discussed over tasty finger foods (the fried mushrooms really were incredible) and frothy pints (you didn’t even have to dig…

  • The AfterMAPH Literati

    Eleven MAPH Alums have contributed to the latest issue of Contrary, an online literary magazine founded and run by MAPH Alums. In the latest addition there’s fiction by B.E. Hopkins, aka Brandon Hopkins (MAPH ’03), who’s been living as an expatriate in Paris and writing stories like “The Halcyon Days of War.” Brandon appears alongside…