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TODAY
Saturday, May 4
Slowdown
BY DAY
Saturday, November 10 2007
Green City Market @ Notebaert Nature Museum
The Green City Market has moved indoors to the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum's North Gallery, located at 2430 N. Cannon Drive, and will be selling the same good stuff they're known for from 7:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. today.
Rick Steves @ Barbara's Bookstore
World traveler Rick Steves will be at Barbara's Bookstore at UIC to talk about traveling Europe and his 2008 travel guides. Free. 7:30pm. 1218 S. Halsted St. Call 312-413-2665 for more information.
Benefit For Poor Children In Kenya @ Sabre Room
The Friends of Sheltered Children In Kenya (FOSCIK) host their annual banquet to honor African-American humanitarians making a difference in the lives of destitute children in Kenya or in their own communities. FOSCIK is raising funds to help pay for the ongoing needs of children living at shelters. 5 p.m. Sabre Room, 8900 W. 95th St. in Hickory Hills. For more info, call (847) 501-2867.
Shop for a Cause
Bucktown boutique Saffron will host a charity event highlighting three local artists on Saturday November 10 from 11 to 6. Stop by to check out Denise Allen Robinson’s Neesh electric, vintage-inspired separates, Eva May’s hand printed tees, and Elizabeth Oboler’s jewelry. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Jane Goodall Institute. Call for more details: 773-468-7753, 2064 N Damen Ave.
Post Family Open House
The Post Family, a design collective, is holding an open house at their studio, 1821 W. Hubbard Ave. #308, from 5pm to 9pm tonight. Meet the Posts, check out the space and their wares, and enjoy the atmosphere. Free; RSVP here.
Sadie Hawkins' Day Race & Style Ride
The now annual Sadie Hawkins' Day Race & Style Ride is back again, today. What is it? "Sadie Hawkins Day Race/Style Ride is an on-street, in-traffic, point-to-point bike adventure for couples or pairs. At registration you're given a list of places to pick things up and where to drop them off, and you get to ride around the city doing cool stuff. There are prizes for the fastest couple, fastest tandem team, fastest out of towners, best dressed, and more." Last year's inaugural event drew people from out of town, generated a ton of missed connections and suffice to say, there were a few couples that are still together to this day. 4pm, Humboldt Park Boathouse (Sacramento between Division and North) with afterparty jammin' late into the night!
Sister Helen Prejean @ Rockefeller Chapel
Perhaps most famous from the movie version of her memoir, Dead Man Walking, Sister Helen Prejean is the keynote speaker in the national convention of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty. 5850 S Woodlawn, free, 7 PM. For more information, call 773-955-4841 or visit the website.
Pinot Days @ Navy Pier
If you go nuts for great Pinot Noir, you best get on the stick and register now for Pinot Days at Navy Pier. Over 50 producers of Pinot Noir from California, Oregon, Burgundy, New Zealand, and beyond will be in town from November 7th to November 10th for a muti-event festival celebrating the soft and sexy red grape. The grand finale is a tasting of over 150 different Pinot Noir-based wines from 1-4pm. $50 Lakeview Terrace at Navy Pier. More info is available at the Pinot Days website.
Journal of Ordinary Thought: Getting Around @ Roosevelt University
As part of the 2007 Chicago Humanities Festival, the Journal of Ordinary Thought presents Getting Around, a program of readings and music on the impact of transportation on our everyday lives. They couldn't have picked a better time to hold this event. The reading happens today at noon at Ganz Hall at Roosevelt University (430 S. Michigan). The event is free, but reservations are required. See the Humanities Festival Website to make reservations.
Arctic @ Millennium Park
Part of the Chicago Humanities Festival, this multimedia installation "combines chilling video footage with sounds recorded on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen and reassembled into a haunting hour-long sound and video spectacular." At the Pritzker Pavillion, 9 AM to 10 PM. Free. For more information, visit the website.
Pyromentalism at the River
The North Branch Restoration Project meets on chilly weekends to eliminate invasive species like common buckthorn from the Chicago River valley. Volunteers cut down shrubs and trees to heap onto growing bonfires, then relax and roast food and make s'mores. Kid-friendly.
