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Monday, January 23 2006
Colin Meloy @ Park West
Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy once again brings his solo show to Chicago, this time to the Park West. Check out a review of his album "Colin Meloy Sings Morrissey" and head to the show. Tickets are available on ticketmaster for $15 (plus, you know, fees) or at the Park West boxoffice. Doors open at 6pm, show starts at 7:30pm with Laura Viers.
That's Weird, Grandma
First they teach, then they share. Each Monday, Barrel of Monkeys presents "That's Weird, Grandma," critically acclaimed assortment of scenes and songs adapted by the ensemble from Chicago Public School students’ stories. The show changes each week according to audience votes (switching 2-3 sketches in and out each performance), and each show runs about one hour. Runs Mondays at 8pm at The Neo-Futurarium, 5153 N. Ashland. Special $2 off coupon available at the website.
Eggers & Newsome @ Quimby's
Dave Eggers and James Newsome read and discuss Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated, a new book in a new McSweeney's series of oral histories. About the series: "After spending years behind bars, hundreds of men and women with incontrovertible proof of their innocence -- including 120 from death row -- have been released from America's prisons. They were wrongfully convicted because of problems that plague many criminal proceedings -- inept defense lawyers, overzealous prosecutors, deceitful and coercive interrogation tactics, bad science, snitches, and eyewitness misidentification. Finally free, usually after more than a decade of incarceration, they re-enter society with nothing but the scars from a harrowing descent into prison only to struggle to survive on the outside." Featured Readers at this event: Dave Eggers is the editor of McSweeney's and James Newsome, an exoneree who served fifteen years on a murder charge before being exonerated by fingerprints lifted from the crime scene and matched to an already incarcerated career criminal. After his release, Newsome won a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the City of Chicago. This reading takes place at noon at Quimby's bookstore, located at 1854 W. North Ave., Chicago, call them up at (773) 342-0910.
