Friday 12/19 – Thursday 12/25
Tonight’s Turnstyles: Underground Expo is a combination dance party, art show, and record-release event put together by Jeremy “Sole” Ross, who’s mixed music all over town. The night kicks off at 8 with a free opening reception for the art exhibit; music starts at 10, and the cover then is $5. It’s at the Chopin Theatre, 1543 W. Division. Call 773-276-2906.
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20 SATURDAY Cardboard toilet-paper rolls, string, peanut butter, pine cones. No, they’re not the ingredients for an afternoon of perverted debauchery–they’re the materials that will be used to make innocent bird feeders at today’s Give a Bird a Present for Christmas program at the Chicago Public Library. Kids who participate will get to take the feeders home and will receive handouts describing the habits of local fowl. It’s from 11 to 3:30 in the Thomas Hughes Children’s Library at the Harold Washington Library Center, 400 S. State. It’s free, and materials will be provided. Call 312-747-4780 for more.
23 TUESDAY Actor Lenny Baker never really made it big, but his starring role in Paul Mazursky’s 1976 send-up of 50s Bohemia, Next Stop, Greenwich Village, found him working alongside up-and-comers Jeff Goldblum and Christopher Walken as well as an on-her-way-down Shelley Winters. The four friends and lovers confront such still-relevant issues as female assertiveness, suicide, self-absorption, abortion, and, of course, the hard knocks one endures trying to make it as an actor in the big, cruel city. It’ll be screened tonight as part of the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs’ annual Festival of Lights…Camera, Action! A kosher vegetarian dinner will be served at 6:30, and the film starts at 7:30. It’s in the Bederman Auditorium at the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs, 618 S. Michigan. Tickets are $15. To make a reservation, call 312-663-0960.
