Kevin Guilfoile @ Downers Grove Public Library

Author Kevin Guilfoile will be at the Downers Grove Public Library to talk about his work. Free. 7pm. 1050 Curtiss in Downers Grove. Call 630-960-1200 for more information.

Morgan Winery Wine Dinner at Chalkboard

Chalkboard (4343 N Lincoln Ave.) is hosting a Morgan Winery Wine Dinner on Wednesday, September 17. Chef/Owner Gilbert Langlois will team up with Bravo's Top Chef, Stephanie Izard for this special event. The dinner is limited to 60 seats with two seatings at 7 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. The cost of the dinner is $125 per person plus tax and gratuity. For reservations, please call Chalkboard at 773-477-7144.

Local Author Night @ Book Cellar

Join the Book Cellar for another round of getting to know great local authors. Tonight Doug Cummings will read from Every Secret Crime, Keir Graff will read from One Nation Under God and Michael Harvey will read from The Fifth Floor. Free at 7pm at 4736-38 N. Lincoln Ave. Call 773-293-2665 for more information.

CNT Celebrates 30 Years @ Garfield Park

The urban sustainability think tank CNT celebrates its 30 year anniversary at the Garfield Park Conservatory. 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., 300 N. Central Park Avenue. El: Green to Conservatory - Central Park Drive.

Love as Laughter/Oxford Collapse @ Schubas

Schubas
3159 N Southport
9:00 PM | 18+ | $10.00

Oxford Collapse
Vacations
Love as Laughter

Backed by producer Joe Blaney (Clash, Ramones, Keith Richards, Tom Waits), and recording in New York City's West Village, Love as Laughter created the supernaturally inspired HOLY. The band has delivered a variety of contrasts to create a complex and thought provoking musical experience. It's this mélange of content old and new, living and supernatural, holy and profane that makes Love as Laughter's new material the best they've ever recorded and finds the band poised on the precipice of their next major wave of creativity.

The Forms @ Subterranean

Subterranean
2011 W. North Ave

DOORS @ 8:30 PM | SHOW @ 9:00 PM | 21 & OVER
TICKETS: $8.00

Helicopters
The Forms
The Pale Gallery

Magic In Cinema @ Sonotheque

Sonotheque, 1444 W. Chicago Ave., and the Chicago Cinema Forum host "Magic in Cinema," highlighting the use of mystical and mesmerizing moments of magic in early cinema history. Among the films shown will be a selection of works by the first wizard of cinema, Georges Melies; a recently restored print of Lotte Reinger's animated film The Adventures of Prince Achmed; Edwin S. Porter's Dream of a Rarebit Fiend; and R W Paul's surreal The ? Motorist. The films will be accompanied by original music by producer/musician Shannon Harris and guitarist Jeff Parker of Tortoise. Doors open at 7pm, films begin at 8pm. $8 admission, 21+.