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TODAY
Thursday, September 11
Slowdown
BY DAY
Sunday, October 16 2005
24-Hour Horror Movie Festival @ Music Box
Continuing from yesterday, the Movieside Film Festival presents "Music Box Massacre," a 24-hour horror movie marathon at 3733 N. Southport. Through noon today, catch classic horror movies, such as Nosferatu, Return of the Living Dead and Near Dark. There will be prizes and giveaways and pajamas and blankets are encouraged. Seriously, how can you ever go wrong with pajamas and blankets? Tickets are $20 in advance, $24 at the door and can be bought by call 866-468-3401. The Music Box can be contacted at 773-871-6604.
East Garfield Park Artists' Open Studio Tour
Today the artists of East Garfield Park open their studios to the public. Walk to each locale at your own pace or take a bus tour starting at the Conservatory at noon. Art, markets, exhibits and performances galore. And if you like to find art in pain, you can tour my half-gutted home. Go here for details. All events are free.
Opening: WITHiNSIGHT
The Chicago Photography Center unveils their new show WITHiNSIGHT with a free gallery opening from 12-4pm. The black and white exhibition includes photography from Eric Borts, Kelley Clink, Angie McMonigal and more. The show will run through early January. 3301 N. Lincoln Ave. Call 773-549-1631 for more information.
Holabird & Root Scavenger Hunt
It's kind of like the Chicago version of The Amazing Race. From 1-4pm today, the Chicago Architecture Foundation is holding a Holabird & Root Scavenger Hunt, tracing Holabird & Root's Chicago history. It's a hunt through the Loop that starts with a gallery talk at the Architecture Foundation's ArchiCenter and ends with a small reception with John Holabird Jr. at the Holabird & Root offices. It's a unique way to interact with the city's history and architecture. Tickets are $10 for CAF members, $20 for non-members, and free for children 14 and under. You can register here or call 312-922-3432x225 to learn more about it.
Louise Erdrich @ Lookingglass Theater
Writers on the Record is once again bringing a great author to town, writer Louise Erdrich. Most recently the author of The Painted Drum, Erdrich has a long series of novels dealing with events in the lives of several generations of Ojibwa Indians. You might be most familiar with her award-winning book Love Medicine (one of my personal favorites). Victoria Lautman will sit down with Erdrich to conduct an interview before a live audience, and a simultaneous broadcast on 98.7WFMT at the Lookingglass Theater today at 11:30am. Tickets are free, but reservations are required. For more information call 312-832-6788 or 312-832-6789. The theater is located at the Water Tower Water Works on Michigan Ave.
