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Sunday, December 20 2015
Hyde Park Handmade Bazaar @ Promontory
The Hyde Park Handmade Artisan Bazaar and Farmers Market is upstairs at the Promontory, 5311 S. Lake Park Ave., today from 11am to 4pm. Shop for locally made art, crafts and food. Admission is free.
Made in Chicago Holiday Market @ Plumbers Hall
The Chicago Reader hosts the Made in Chicago Market today at the Plumbers Union Hall, 1340 W. Washington Blvd. from 11am to 5pm. Shop local for apparel, housewares, food and drink, and support fellow Chicagoans! This event is free, and free parking is available at the market!
Walk with Light on the 606
The 606, aka the Bloomingdale Trail, hosts a family-friendly night walk called A Walk with Light tonight from 4:30 to 6:30pm. Bring a string of lights, glow sticks, LED candles or other non-flame lights, and walk the trail to Walsh Park, 1722 N. Ashland Ave., where there will be fire pits, warm drinks, s’mores, music and fire dancing. Free.
Big Star Country Christmas Show
Big Star, 1531 N. Damen Ave., and Heaven Hill present the Big Star Country Christmas Show tonight at 6pm. Quarter Mile Thunder and Angela James & Jordan Martins perform, and there will be seasonal menu items and drink specials. No cover, space is limited. 21+
The Marrow @ Whistler
The Marrow returns to The Whistler, 2421 N. Milwaukee Ave., tonight at 6pm with essays by Dave Reidy, Megan Kirby, Ted Wesenberg and Britt Julious. Leah Pickett and Naomi Huffman host. No cover, 21+
Don't Call Me Sweetheart Holiday Spectacular
Lumpen Radio's "Don't Call Me Sweetheart" show presents the Don't Call Me Sweetheart Holiday Spectacular tonight from 6 to 8pm at Co-Prosperity Sphere, 3219 S. Morgan St. Hosts Stephen Sonneveld and Andrew Gregory Krzak will broadcast a live old-time holiday radio show, including music by trio Foiled Again and a Santa mystery. Tickets are $12 and include a warm beverage or baked good.
Beowulf & Grendel @ Chief O'Neill's Pub
Two actors and a fiddle player will perform a staged reading of Beowulf & Grendel, adapted from the Old English epic, tonight at Chief O'Neill's Pub & Restaurant, 3471 N. Elston. Chicago author June Skinner Sawyers wrote the adaptation. Tickets are $15, available at the door; cash or check, please. Read our preview in A/C.
The Incredibly Strange Holiday Spectacular @ Emporium Wicker Park
Kickapoo Joy Juice and Ramblin' Root Beer present The Incredibly Strange Holiday Spectacular...for the Needy tonight at Emporium Arcade Bar, 1366 N. Milwaukee Ave. The evening will feature America's Funnyman, Neil Hamburger; Everything Is Terrible's Holiday Humbug video show; pin-up Masuimi Max with the Ghost of Christmas Past, Present and Future; Maya Sinstress and Mark the Knife, Celine Neon and more. Troma Films' Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD emcees. Plus, free Kickapoo Joy Juice and Ramblin' Root Beer for everyone, and drink specials at the bar. Tickets are $20 -- or free if you donate a new, unwrapped toy at Taco In a Bag, 4603 N. Lincoln Ave. Doors open at 7:30pm. 21+
