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Wednesday, November 09 2005
The Earrings of Madame De... @ DOC Films
Screening at 7pm tonight in the "Crumbling Old Aristocracies" series is Max Ophuls' masterpiece The Earrings of Madame De.... The 1953 film charts no fewer than four purchases of the titular earrings, which circulate through a small group of Vienna society folk and come to symbolize the empty romance and cheap emotions found therein. The film also features noted director Vittorio de Sica in a starring role. The film screens at the Max Palevsky Theatre, 1212 E. 59th St; for more information, see the DOC Films website.
Panel Discussion on Women in Architecture @ the Chicago Architecture Foundation
At 6 PM this evening, three of the architects featured in the current CAF exhibit 5 Architects discuss women’s evolving role in the profession. John Buck Company Lecture Hall Gallery at the ArchiCenter, 224 South Michigan. This event is $15, or $5 for members of the Chicago Architecture Foundation. Call 312-922-3432, x266 for reservations or click here.
Ustad Faiyaz Wasifuddin Dagar @ Chicago Cultural Center
F. Wasifuddin Dagar performs the ancient Indian classical music called Dhrupad, intended to foster peaceful contemplation, at 7 PM this evening in Preston Bradley Hall. Free. 78 E Washington Street. For more information, call 312-744-6630 or visit the website.
Radio Plays @ the Chicago Cultural Center
The AFTRA/SAG Senior Radio Players are dedicated to “keeping alive the uniqueness of radio as the theater of the imagination." At tonight’s performances of Life with Luigi (a sitcom about an Italian immigrant to Chicago) and Gunsmoke (a western), you’ll have a chance to see sound effects people, as well as usually invisible actors, at work. At the Claudia Cassidy Theater in the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E Washington Street, 7 PM. For more information, call 312-573-8081 or see the website.
David Ebenbach book reading @ The Book Cellar
Drue Heinz prize winner, David Ebenbach will be reading at the Book Cellar in Lincoln Square on November 9 at 7:00 PM. He'll be reading from a collection of short fiction for which he won this esteemed prize.
