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Wednesday, December 29 2010
Dance Party @ Lincoln Hall
Lincoln Hall presents an evening of team karaoke dancing, featuring music by B Starr and DJ La*Jesus. Doors open at 9pm, admission is free, and it's an 18+ event. Lincoln Hall: 2424 N. Lincoln Avenue. (773) 525-2501.
Psychobilly Pre New Years Eve Eve @ Delilah's
Delilah's presents a pre-New Year's Eve celebration tonight with DJ Machetti. $2 PBR longnecks, $2 Old Crow Bourbon. Delilah's: 2771 N. Lincoln Avenue. (773) 472-2771.
Hilary Wagner @ Beverly Arts Center
Still on holiday vacation? Fantasy author Hilary Wagner will be in Beverly tomorrow for an Author Afternoon. She'll be reading from her debut young adult novel Nightshade City, which tells the tale of an underground city of anthropomorphized rats living under a brutal dictatorship and the ragtag heroes that stage a coup. Author Medeia Sharif said "When I was reading it I thought to myself, 'if Dickens wrote about rats, he would have written Nightshade City.'" Beverly Arts Center, 2407 W. 111th St., Chicago, (773) 445-3838. $5 admission, $4 for center members. Wednesday, December 29 at 2pm.
Before the River Ran Backwards
If you've wanted to see what the area around the Chicago River was like before, during, and just after a great engineering feat was put into place, then you'll want to be at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum (2430 N Cannon Drive) today at 11:30am to get a guided tour of some of the 20,000 images taken by the Sanitary District of Chicago from 1894 to 1928. Tour price is included in admission.
