Pizza, Wine & Music

While Marie's Pizza is not the tackiest place you'll ever see, it's one of the few places around with '80s-style etched glass mirrors, red Naugahyde booths, and beehived patrons. Plus, it's attached to a liquor store that always advertises Bulgarian brandy. And now you have a reason to go!

Tonight, November 9, you can enjoy a dinner and dessert buffet, plus taste over 30 domestic and imported wines for just $20 in advance or $25 the day of. Marie's is located at 4129 W. Lawrence, a few blocks west of Pulaski. For more information, call 773-725-1812.

Wal-Mart Workers' Rights Book Signing

Tonight at 7:30 p.m. at Women and Children First Bookstore, located at 5233 N. Clark Street, Chicago, Liza Featherstone will read and sign from her book, Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers’ Rights at Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart’s labor abuses are no longer news. But this eye-opening expose looks specifically at how the self-styled "family-oriented" company traps women—who make up 72% of its workforce, and only 10% of its management—in dead-end jobs that sustain their poverty. Call (773) 769-9299 for more information.

Tom Pickard Reads @ UofC

Poem Present and the Chicago Review present Tom Pickard tonight at 5:30 p.m. at the University of Chicago, 1050 E. 59th Street (Fourth floor, in Wiedboldt 408), Chicago. A reception will follow the reading and this event is free and handicapped accessible. Tom Pickard was born in Newcastle in 1946, left school at 14, and in 1964 organized with his wife Connie the Morden Tower poetry readings, "a Golden Bloomsday for the revival of British poetry in the 60s". Called "the lyrical post-beat enfant terrible of the alternative poetry scene in 60s/70s UK," Pickard was a great supporter of American experimental poetry, and gained a reputation as something of an ally among such poets as Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsburg, and Charles Olson. Pickard's most recent offering, The Dark Month of May, was published in September by Flood Editions.