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Friday, March 29
Soup & Bread, the weekly wintertime soup-eating party benefiting a local food-related charity, is tonight at the Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia Ave. Volunteer cooks make the soup; you show up between 5:30 and 8pm to eat, enjoy and kick in a few bucks for the cause. Kids welcome with parents.
Guitarist Leo Kottke performs solo tonight at 7:30pm at SPACE, 1275 Chicago Ave. in Evanston. Tickets are $30-65. Doors open at 6:30pm.
The Double Door, 1572 N. Milwaukee Ave., is the setting tonight for Ultimate Painting, a speed painting competition in which artists do the best work they can in 20 minutes and the audience judges the winner. Tickets are $8; doors open at 7pm. 21+
The Cut Cats Courier Winter Bash is tonight at the Empty Bottle, 1035 N. Western Ave., at 9pm. The lineup includes Basic Cable, Torture Love, Gula Gila and Earring. Tickets are $5, and proceeds benefit The Center for Workplace Democracy. 21+