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Friday, March 29

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Infrastructure: Designing for Man vs. Nature @ Archicenter

As part of its special series After Katrina, the Chicago Architecture Foundation presents a discussion about how engineers design for natural disasters. In the John Buck Company Lecture Hall Gallery, 224 S. Michigan, 6 PM. Tickets are $10 to $20, or less if you purchase tickets for the whole series. For more information and to make reservations, call 312-922-3432 x225, or visit the website.

Rashid Khalidi @ Roosevelt University

In an event sponsored by the Public Square at the Illinois Humanities Council, the author and Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University delivers a lecture called "After Elections in Palestine and Israel, What Has Changed?" 5:30 PM, Mansfield Institute for Social Justice, 430 S. Michigan. Free, but reservations are required: call 312-422-5580 or email info [at] publicsquare [dot] org. For more information, visit the website.

Opening: Nixon in China @ Harris Theater

The groundbreaking 1987 opera by John Adams premieres in Chicago at last. The Chicago Opera Theater brings its production to the Harris Theater at Millennium Park. Ticket prices range from $17.50 to $115. For more information, visit the website.

Morocco @ Film Center

As part of the Treasures from the Library of Congress series, this 1930 classic screens at 6 PM tonight.The story features a love triangle among cafe singer Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou, and Gary Cooper. $9, or $5 if you belong to the Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N State. For more information, call 312-846-2600 or visit the website.

Opening: Closed and Open: Antonia Contro@ Newberry Library

This is a site-specific exhibition, created in collaboration with Newberry staff. Contro, a Chicago artist, "create[s] visual systems that explain the world." Through 15 July. Free. 60 W. Walton Street. For more information, call 312-255-3700 or visit the website.

Local Authors Night @ Book Cellar

Dee Greenberg, the author of Finding Ellen, Nick Ostdick, author of Sunbeams and Cigarettes, and Lisa Alvarado, one of the authors of Sister Chicas, join the Book Cellar for the bookstore's local author night. The free discussion begins at 7pm. The Book Cellar is located at 4736-38 N. Lincoln Ave. Call 773-293-2665 for more information.

Ride of Silence

Tonight at 7 PM, join with riders in more than 120 locations throughout the United States and the rest of the world in honoring injured and killed bicyclists. Chicago's ride begins at Daley Plaza, and then traces a 10-mile loop along the lake shore path. Participants are asked to wear black armbands. For more information, email emadamczyk[at]hotmail[dot]com or visit the website.

 

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