Friday 4/23 – Thursday 4/29
This weekend’s Anime Central convention offers fans of Japanese animation and comics a chance to enjoy some of that Trekkeresque camaraderie. Directors, designers, and actors will be on hand, and conventioneers can network during karaoke. It’s today and Saturday from 8 to 4 and Sunday from 8 to 3 at the Ramada Plaza Hotel O’Hare, 6600 N. Mannheim in Rosemont. Admission is $25 per day today and Saturday, $20 on Sunday, or $45 for the whole weekend. For more information call the hotel at 847-827-5131.
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Animal Charm (aka Jim Fetterley and Rich Bott) mix live video, audio, and performance in their new 45-minute “video symphony,” Target. They’ll perform it tonight at 8 after showing a few of their latest videos. It starts at 7 in the Chicago Cultural Center’s Claudia Cassidy Theater, 78 E. Washington. Call Kino-Eye Cinema at 773-384-5533 for more.
25 SUNDAY Emory University professor Deborah E. Lipstadt refuses to debate people who say the Holocaust never happened. Her ire with their ilk fueled her 1993 study, Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory. Today she’ll remind college students of the dangers of denial in her talk The Battle on the Campus. The program starts at 7 in Hammerschmidt Memorial Chapel on the west end of the Elmhurst College campus, 190 Prospect in Elmhurst. It’s free, but donations will be accepted for Elmhurst’s Holocaust Education Guestship. Call 630-617-3025 for more.
Tonight at 6:30 the Randolph Cafe at the Cultural Center will accommodate the latest installment of the Honky Tonk Living Room, the Hideout’s bimonthly showcase of what the press release calls “twang-infused music.” The evening will feature performances by the Texas Rubies and Cole Rain and movie clips from Heather McAdams’s collection. The Rubies’ Kelly Kessler hosts. The center is at 78 E. Washington (312-744-6630). Admission is free.
