The News Show: Chicago!

The Neo-Futurists present this month's installment of The News Show, an ongoing news/magazine program done in a theater, instead of on TV. This month's topic: a repeat of last month's topic, Chicago. Show starts at 8:00PM. The Neo-Futurarium: 5153 N. Ashland. (773) 275-5255.

Final Prime Shorts

The Hideout bids adieu to its bimonthly short film show, with its eleventh and final (scheduled) show, curated by Xan Aranda, who writes:

"Producing and curating this show has been the greatest! But we can't go steady anymore, Prime Shorts and me... It was a hot sweaty love affair that now needs to give way to other shiny objects and tempting projects.

There will be no schedule, but I remain a short film collector who will sometimes curate short film shows to screen at the Hideout."

"With the promise of there being no uber-depressing dog-murder claymation, I hope you can make it to the swan song, the final sprint, the last (scheduled) Prime Shorts."

Prime Shorts, the short film show with regular roost at the Hideout (and recent special engagements at the Gene Siskel Film Center) brings you its final scheduled show.

Azar Nafisi Reads and Signs "Reading Lolita in Tehran"

Azar Nafisi will discuss and sign her book, Reading Lolita in Tehran, a fascinating blend of memoir and literary criticism and moving testament to the power of art and its ability to affect people's lives. After resigning her job as an English Professor at the University of Tehran due to repressive policies, Dr. Nafisi invited seven of her best female students to meet each week in secret to study forbidden works of Western literature, including Nabokov, James, Austen and Fitzgerald. Dr. Nafisi's book pays tribute to the lives of these women and the great works of literature which sustained them. This program is part of the Albert Pick, Jr. International Relations Project. The event is co-sponsored by Facing History and Ourselves and the Seminary Co-op Bookstore. The event takes place at 6 p.m. in the auditorium of the Harold Washington Library.