Lawrence C. Connolly

Tag: story

  • Seeing Stories:
    All-Star Story Night Preview – Part II

    Seeing is believing. With that in mind, if you still need convincing that you should be at this month’s All-Star Story Night at Riley’s Pour House, be sure to check out the links at the end of this blog. My previous All-Star Preview featured audio from Anna Voelker’s June performance–a show-stopping, draw-dropping delivery of a piece titled…

  • Hearing Voices:
    The Sound of Fantastic Fiction at KGB

    Time travel is possible. Thanks to Gordon Linzner and Rajan Khanna, you can attend a growing list of past performances at Fantastic Fiction at KGB. The reading series is hosted by Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel, and since the 1990s it has featured readings by some of the top writers in the science fiction, fantasy, and…

  • The Stars Came Out @ Riley’s:
    Starry Nights, Cosmic Conversations

    Welcome back! This is the second in a series of blogs and podcasts centering on June’s Storytelling Night at Riley’s. If you missed the first round, you can check it out here. Our theme for the event was “Starry Nights, Cosmic Conversations,” and as our story events often do, this one started off with music by Reni…

  • Storytelling Night at Riley’s:
    Starry Nights, Cosmic Conversations

    It was SRO when co-host Diane Turnshek and I presented “Starry Nights and Cosmic Conversations” at Riley’s Pour House last Tuesday. The event featured an impressive roster of storytellers performing a stellar mix of astronomy-related stories. Starting today, I’d like to share some audio highlights from that evening, starting with two exciting spoken-word performers who made their Riley’s debut…

  • Featured Audio
    A Story by Horror Master Stephen Volk

    I’ve been a Stephen Volk fan ever since I caught the movie Gothic at a midnight run back in 1987. Directed by Ken Russell, the same over-the-top director responsible for such classics as Altered States and The Devils, Gothic presents Stephen Volk’s reimagining of events that led to the writing of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Among his other film…

  • What Riley’s Scops Talk About . . .
    When They Talk About Love

    The polar vortex didn’t keep story lovers from turning out at this month’s storytelling night at Riley’s Pour House. If you were there, you know firsthand how thoroughly the act of storytelling can warm a frigid night. If you didn’t attend, and you live anywhere in the Pittsburgh area, you owe it to yourself to…