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TODAY
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Wednesday, April 13 2011
Children of Divorce @ Portage Theater
The Northwest Chicago Film Society presents the 1927 film Children of Divorce at the Portage Theater, 4050 N. Milwaukee Ave., tonight at 7:30pm. Admission is $5.
Duck and Goose @ Uncommon Ground on Clark
Duck and Goose, the charming duo that captivated the audience at the Hopleaf on Tuesday evening at This Much is True, perform tonight at Uncommon Ground (3800 N. Clark) tonight for the series Back Room Sessions. Also performing is the group American Vacation. Show starts at 8pm.
Maureen McLane @ Hilton Orrington
Tonight at 5pm at Hilton Orrington (Hinman Auditorium, 1710 Orrington Ave) in Evanston, poet and literary critic Maureen McLane will read as part of Northwestern University's 4th Annual Writers' Festival. Admission is free.
Soup and Bread @ The Hideout
Get your slurp on at this weekly fundraiser for area food-related charities tonight at the Hideout, 1354 West Wabansia, from 5:30-7:30pm. A volunteer team of chefs and bakers donate the soup and bread; you donate the money.
Double Feature Lecture Series @ Mess Hall
This lecture series features presentations by Nick Bastis and Andrew Norman Wilson. Bastis will talk about his "Forms of Spectacle and Solutions to Vacancy" project, which sought to challenge construction and distribution hierarchies of destination-object architecture. By building and celebrating the "opening" of a replicated 1:1 scale Frank Gehry structure with students in an underserved neighborhood of Chicago's west side, the installation and performance examined certain architectures as symbols of capital and power, testing the perceived strength of Gehry's aesthetic and its rumored ability to seemingly transform a struggling neighborhood's social and economic infrastructure. The project became a platform to not only test current and historical trends in architecture and planning, but to playfully redistribute such urban renewal methodologies and examine their power structures. Wilson will talk about his "Virtual Assistance" project, which began with research geared towards unpacking the relational system of Get Friday, a virtual personal assistant service based in Bangalore, India, that provides remote executive support to a largely American client base through "virtual" personal assistants. I am a part of that client base, paying monthly fees for a primary assistant who works out of the Get Friday office in India. My "assistant" is a 25-year-old male Bangalore resident named Akhil. In paying for our relationship I am not trying to lighten my work load, but rather to attempt collaborative projects and even reversals of the normative outsourcing flow under a corporate contract arranged for one-way command. These lectures take place tonight from 7 to 9 at Mess Hall: 6932 North Glenwood Ave.
