Friday 10/22 – Thursday 10/28
After indulging in the extended adolescence of graduate school at the Art Institute and fronting the adolescently sweet pop band Love Child, Rebecca Odes hooked up with Esther Drill and Heather McDonald and got serious about teenagers, founding gURL.com, an interactive Web site for girls. They’ve since gone into print with Deal With It! A Whole New Approach to Your Body, Brain and Life as a gURL, a latter-day Our Bodies, Ourselves with chapters like “Boobs and What’s Up Down There?,” “To Do It or Not to Do It,” and “Understanding Sexual Preference.” They’ll host a signing and cocktail party tonight at 6:30 at Children in Paradise Bookstore, 909 N. Rush (312-951-5437). It’s free.
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25 MONDAY Artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude, best known for wrapping the Reichstag in fabric and constructing a 24-mile nylon fence through Sonoma and Marin counties in California, don’t accept grants, volunteer labor, or licensing deals, believing that to do so would compromise their vision. They have, however, accepted a small honorarium to discuss two works in progress: “The Gates,” a plan to install 11,000 steel gates with nylon panels in New York City’s Central Park, and “Over the River,” a scheme involving six miles of fabric extending across the Arkansas River in Colorado. It starts today at 4 in the Owen L. Coon Forum in Northwestern University’s Leverone Hall, 2001 Sheridan in Evanston. It’s free. Call 847-491-7946 for details.
H.P. Lovecraft’s story The Music of Erich Zann, about an old violinist whose strange, furious music conjures up a demonic cataclysm, is the subject of Dramaton Puppet Theater’s shadow- and rod-puppet performance tonight at 8 at HotHouse, 31 E. Balbo (312-362-9707), which features musical accompaniment by Krakatoa, an avant-garde musical ensemble. Admission is $10.
