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Marielle Bokor
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Editor and Photographer, Third Coast Review
Chicago
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Biography
I started my official writing career with Chicagoist in its Arts and Culture section, where I began on the music beat and ended up covering all manner of things, but especially "the nerd beat" and the museum beat. I also began photographing concerts and exhibits for articles here. Eventually, I'd go on to network with local museums and start a brand new series at Chicagoist, Ask a Scientist, where we'd feature a scientist from one of the area museums and introduce them to the readership, then let the readers ask questions that'd be answered the following week. I also established our coverage of local conventions and took over coverage of the housewares show. Shortly before Chicagoist was shut down by the Ricketts unexpectedly, I also started contributing to Third Coast Review, a publication borne out of the ashes of Gaper's Block. Their goal was to create an arts and culture site carefully curated for its readers. I began writing with them and shortly became an editor for the Beyond section, which covered suburban events and things which were a little off the beaten path. In this role I also established our wall to wall convention coverage, which has garnered recognition from prominent convention heads. I also became the Art and Museums editor, and maintain a close working relationship with all of Chicago's major institutions as well as institutions out of state, zoos and conservatories/parks. As a photographer I continue to expand my boundaries and also freelance as an event photographer, something I love.
nerd culture, Museums , Zoos, Video Games , News, Chicago, Theater, Tabletop Games, Art , Parks, Film And TV
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Content
By Marielle Bokor Verified| Culture Combine@ This year's 'premier' Chicago convention really snuck up on us. Just yesterday we were complaining about the snow that was falling...just yesterday, after Third and Fourth False Spring came on a little too intensely. Anyway, that's neither here nor there other than to say, take a jacket but wear layers to this year's convention. Our second piece of unsolicited advice?
By Marielle Bokor Verified| Third Coast Review@ Midwesterners talk about the weather a lot. We try to avoid it, but with the way things have been this past week, let’s face it: March isn’t the time for that. One day it’s grey and snowy, the next tornadoes and green skies. And sure, there’s the rare near summer day with 70s and 80s where we run to the lakefront, but for the most part, this is ‘lousy Smarch weather’ the way only Chicago can dish it up.
By Marielle Bokor Verified| Culture Combine@ "OK, so hear me out..." some pitch guy somewhere must have said. "You know MMA? The raw, bloody, knuckle to knuckle, sweaty totally NOT armored fighting that everyone loves?""What if...we added armor. Medieval armor!"It's hard to believe that'd make it off the elevator but apparently it did, and that leaves us with AMMA, the armored medieval cage fighting events that we first learned about from our friends at Secret Chicago, as we here in the Windy City will soon be blessed with their presence.
Company Info
Third Coast Review