FRIDAY 6/23 – THURSDAY 6/29
As part of a “cybersolstice out of control” a marching band of costumed mutants will shamble out of the MCA tonight into a “lab” situated in front of the museum, where a toxic spill will birth a giant, spewing, dancing blob that’ll threaten to engulf the audience. EE/Environmental Encroachment’s Third Summer Solstice performance begins at 8 and is just one of dozens of activities crammed into the fest that runs from 5:30 today until 5 PM tomorrow at the museum 220 E. Chicago. Tickets are $7; MCA members and kids under 12 get in for free. Call 312-280-2660 for more information.
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24 SATURDAY Some canines can’t handle the nightmarish excesses of free chow, cheap studs, and loose bitches that accompany celebrity. Be sure yours won’t burn out on the trappings of fame before entering her/him in the third annual Seadog Mascot Search Contest. The winner will be faced with a season’s worth of free rides and all the vacuous, adoring attention a tour boat spokesdog can handle. Check-in starts at 9 this morning at Navy Pier, 600 E. Grand. $20 registration fee benefits the Anti-Cruelty Society. Call 312-751-5518.
26 MONDAY Say you’re walking through the Pik-Kwik parking lot, looking forward to a bowl of Froot Loops when a flannel-clad stranger calls you Stacey and drags you into his Impala. Do you hike up your skirt and say, “Howdy sailor”? If you’re the heroine of prolific local horror pulpstress Yvonne Navarro’s latest novel, That’s Not My Name, you bite your lip and fasten your seat belt. Navarro, author of Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Willow Files–Vol. I and Red Shadows, will read from the thriller tonight at 8 as part of the Twilight Tales series upstairs at the Red Lion Restaurant & Pub, 2446 N. Lincoln (773-348-2695). Admission is $2.
29 THURSDAY “Even a 15-minute sermon is better than no sleep at all,” cracks London-born Rabbi Barry Schechter, who has a million more where that came from. For his lecture Yiddish and Laughter, he determines the audience’s level of comprehension, then uses “as much Yiddish as they can stand.” Schechter, of Congregation Kol Emeth in Skokie, takes his act to the Conrad Sulzer Regional Library, 4455 N. Lincoln, today at 12:15. It’s umzist. Call 312-744-7616.
