Looking for something to do this weekend? Look no further. Stop by The Fridge to see this exhibit before it closes! Tiffany and Mia teamed up for this review/interview of our dear friend, Lisa Marie Thalhammer. Tiffany: “Is this real life!?” asked a colleague of mine shortly after walking into The Fridge for the opening [...]

Local spoken-word poet Natalie Illum isn’t one of those lifelong writers who’d have you believe she was some child prodigy writing prose between cartoons and cereal on Saturday mornings. Her foray into the world of poetry was something of an accident—a lucky pick from a college course catalog that would change her life’s ambition. I first saw [...]

One of WTGG’s favorite local queer poets, Natalie Illum, will host an evening of feminist poetry, prose and performance art at The Fridge next Thursday, April 26 at 7 p.m. The event kicks off with Barcelona’s Jessica Hirst in a series of performance pieces exploring mental illness. Then, poets Molly Gaundry, Sarah Lawson and Mindy Nettifee will join [...]

If for some reason you missed the Andrea Gibson show at the Fridge last week, let me tell you, she was UH-Mazing. As a writer, of both journalism and fiction, I have been to numerous open mics, poetry slams, and literary readings. And frankly, many of them have left me gunshy, because, for every talented [...]