Friday 9/17 – Thursday 9/23
Pinup girl Bettie Page’s life and times provide the fodder for the new play from Psychotronic Film Society boss Michael Flores, Bettie Page Uncensored. It opens tonight (and runs weekends through November 20) at 10:30 at the Playground, 3341 N. Lincoln. Tickets are $16. Call 773-338-2206.
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18 SATURDAY Performances of traditional African dance and Latin American music punctuate the annual Peace Day celebration. This year’s event, which also includes a recital of poetry from Li-Young Lee and a demonstration of “peace breathing and exercise,” is dedicated to late Peace School founder Myung Su Kim, who organized the first Peace Day 21 years ago. It’s from 11 to 1 at the Harold Washington Library Center, 400 S. State. Admission is free. Call 773-248-7959 for more.
Before penning The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx translated Jacques Peuchet’s memoir Peuchet on Suicide, in which the French economist ruminated on the motives of some female suicides in early-19th-century Paris. Marx took the liberty of editing several passages and adding his own two cents, making the point that “it is not only the workers but the whole of bourgeois society that suffers under dehumanized social relations,” says Kevin Anderson, a sociology professor at Northern Illinois University. He and Northwestern University medical school professor emeritus Eric A. Plaut have edited the new book Marx on Suicide, which they will discuss today at 6:30 at the News & Letters Library, room 707, at 59 E. Van Buren (312-663-0839). It’s free.
How to prevent, report, and prosecute hate crimes is the focus of tonight’s local hate crimes summit aimed at Lakeview residents. The panel includes Anti-Defamation League counsel Harlan Loeb, LesBiGay Radio president Alan Amberg, Chicago Police Department civil rights investigator Lori Cooper, and state representative Sara Feigenholtz. The free summit starts at 7 at Anshe Emet Synagogue, 3760 N. Pine Grove. Call 773-296-4141.
