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TODAY
Friday, April 19
Slowdown
BY DAY
Saturday, April 25 2009
World Kitchen Learning Series: Let's Eat In
Create your own at-home supper club today from 11am-2pm at the Gallery 37 Center for the Arts, 66 E. Randolph Street. This class is offered through the City of Chicago's World Kitchen learning series. Admission is $30 and pre-registration is required.
Anarchist Film Festival
The Chicago Anarchist Film Festival runs Friday through Sunday at the Jane Addams Hull House Museum, 800 S. Halsted St. Tonight the screenings run from 7pm to 10pm, showing Tierra Libertad and Capitalismo; Oilers; Love Revolution, Not State Delusion, Homotopia; Black Iron Vatican II; Ethel MacDonald: An Anarchist's Story and Enraged. A donation of $5-10 per festival day is requested, but come on, they're anarchists -- you won't be turned away if you don't have any cash.
Race to Wrigley 5k Marathon
The 4th annual Race to Wrigley Field will take place on Saturday April 25th at 8:00 a.m. It will start at the corner of Clark and Addison St. The course will run through the Lakeview neighborhood.The event is sold out, but for information on the race click here.
Dark Lord Day @ Three Floyds
Get in your car and head to Munster, Indiana for Three Floyds' Brewery's Dark Lord Day. Beer, BBQ and live music are on the bill, even if you didn't get a golden ticket to buy bottles of 3F's heralded Dark Lord Russian Imperial Stout. Event runs 11am-6pm @ 9750 Indiana Pkwy, Munster, IN.
Green and Growing Fair @ Garfield Park Conservatory
The 17th annual Green and Growing Fair (2nd listing) offers workshops on square foot gardening, seed starting, and composting, and speakers on dehydrating food and native pollinators. One Seed Chicago celebrates the winning seed of their competition, the bean, with free seed packets. Garfield Park Conservatory. 10am to 3pm, 300 N. Central Park Avenue. El: Green to Conservatory/Central Park Drive. Bus: 82 Kimball-Homan.
Robot Prom @ Pulaski Park
826 Chicago throws a robot-themed prom at Pulaski Park Fieldhouse. Proceeds benefit the non-profit, which helps children advance their creative and expository writing skills. Dress is "second hand formal and/or robot attire." $30 admission includes "refillable robo-cup for robo-beer and robo-wine, food, music, a very special guest and dancing." 21+, starts at 8pm 1419 W. Blackhawk St. El: Blue Line to Division/Milwaukee. Bus: 9 Ashland, 56 Milwaukee, 70 Division, 72 North.
Zombie Pub Crawl
The Chicago Zombie Pub Crawl returns to Andersonville today. Get ghouled up and go drinking! Registration is $15 in advance, $20 at the event -- which gets you a t-shirt, a zombie makeup kit, two tickets to any pH Productions show, and keepsake mug that you will need to take to all the bars. It doesn't get you free drinks, but the mug will get you access to drink specials. Registration begins at 2pm; check the site for details. 21+
Ride with Phil Keoghan
Phil Keoghan, host of "The Amazing Race" stops in Chicago as part of his Ride Across America for MS. You can bike with him today at Pipers Alley (218 W. North Ave.). For more information, call 312-421-4500. The event is free, but you need to register online to participate.
2nd Annual North Lake Shore Earth Day Celebration
Organizations from Andersonville, Edgewater, Lincoln Square, Ravenswood, and Uptown gather at Loyola University's Quinlan Life Sciences Building (1050 W. Sheridan Road) for their 2nd Annual North Lake Shore Earth Day Celebration. The day includes workshops and panels on a variety of environmental topics, children's activities, and food. The event runs from 9am-4:30pm and is free.
valslist.com Founder @ Apple Store
Val Haller, Chicago resident and founder of valslist.com--a boutique music website designed especially for the boomer generation, beginners and busy adults--teams up with Apple for a first-of-it's-kind event to help you find great music for your iPod. Join Haller for an interactive introduction to the world of digital music. Don't forget to bring your iPod. Free iPod giveaway to one lucky winner. 3pm. 679 N. Michigan Ave. For more information visit Apple's website or valslist's event page.
CARA Lakefront 10 Race
The Chicago Area Runners Association and Novacare host the Lakefront 10 mile race today. The race will begin and end at Montrose Harbor. Registration is $50 and can be completed online here. There is no race day registration.
Alice Waters @ Green City Market
Green City Market enjoys its last winter market at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum from 8am to 1pm. Alice Waters visits for a signing of her book, The Edible Schoolyard, from 10:30am to 11:30am.
Our City Dreams @ Gene Siskel
Five female artists reflect on their shared home of New York City in this documentary, which opens tonight at 5:15pm. 164 N State St, more times and further information here.
Pre-Industrial Pig Dinner
When I got word of the Underground Food Collective's Pre-Industrial Pig Dinner that will unfold tonight, I thought about a trip I took once to Old World Wisconsin, a living history museum nestled in the center of the Badger State. On a blistering August day, I watched a staff of men in awkward 19th century clothing do the backbreaking daily operations of a farmer as a cheery narrator rambled on about milking cows and baling hay. I was glad that the only thing I had to do was watch their pre-industrial struggle as I sipped my post-industrial (?) Diet Coke. Times have changed, but the farming technique and sentiment remains; Saturday's dinner centerpiece is pork from four Red Waddles that were humanely raised at a Wisconsin farm. Tickets are $65. Event begins at 7pm at a private home in Ukrainian Village (address will be provided with ticket purchase); RSVP required.
