Friday 5/21 – Thursday 5/27
If Ireatha Nwokenkwo has her way, women will soon be wearing her “funky office wear” to the corporate salt mines. Nwokenkwo has just completed her first collection of business clothes using traditional, muted fabrics for unusual ensembles like a jumpsuit with a long jacket, “well tailored with a twist,” she says. Chioma Designs will be unveiled tonight at a fashion show and model search that will include food, a raffle, and music by Stella Stephney and Cassandra Martin. It’s from 7:30 to 11 at the Orland Park Civic Center, 14750 S. Ravinia in Orland Park. Call 708-460-7219 for more.
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22 SATURDAY Today the Chicago Artists’ Coalition will address New Technologies for the Millennium at its annual Business of Art Conference. Topics will include legal issues for artists who use new media, marketing on the Web, and creating your own Web site. The conference is from 9:30 to 2:30 in room S102 of the Science Building at Northeastern Illinois University, 5500 N. Saint Louis. Admission is $20 in advance, $25 at the door. Call 312-670-2060 for details.
Riders can take advantage of free valet bike parking and enjoy free admission today to one of the city’s lakefront museums: the Adler Planetarium, the Field Museum, the Shedd Aquarium, or the Museum of Science and Industry. You must register ahead of time (call 312-409-9696) and present your bike and helmet between 11 and 4 at the welcome center at either the museum campus, Roosevelt and Lake Shore Drive, or the Museum of Science and Industry, 57th and Lake Shore Drive.
To make sure the codes and ciphers in his 900-plus-page cyberthriller Cryptonomicon–which involves Nazis and computer hackers–were up to par, Neal Stephenson enlisted the aid of cryptographer Bruce Schneier, who also wrote the book’s appendix. The two will sign copies tonight from 6 to 8 at The Stars Our Destination, 1021 W. Belmont (773-871-2722).
