Events for October 7th, 2008
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Tuesday - October 7th
Events / Gallery Exhibit
11th Annual Chicago Art Open
Merchandise Mart - 222 Merchandise Mart Plaza - Chicago (River North)
Drawings, paintings, photographs, prints, sculptures, textiles and more by nearly 300 emerging and established artists.
Events / Community Event
Stitch 'n' Bitch
Museum of Contemporary Art - 220 E. Chicago Ave. - Chicago (Gold Coast)
Grab your latest knitting project and yarn about needlepoint with other thread-minded folks.
Events / Tours and Vacation
Chicago Hauntings Ghost Tours
Clark and Ohio Streets - 610 N. Clark St. - Chicago (River North)
A bus tour of locations featured in Ursula Bielski's "Chicago Haunts" book series. View Hull House, Death Alley, the sites of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and Eastland Disaster and more.
Events / Community Event
Innovation: Where Business and the Arts Share the Floor
Landmark - 1633 N. Halsted St. - Chicago (Sheffield/De Paul)
6 p.m.
Benefit features a talk by Tom Kuczmarski, author of "Apples are Square: Thinking Differently about Leadership." Includes cocktails, dinner and a copy of Kuczmarski's book.
Music / Rock
Unearth
House of Blues - 329 N. Dearborn St. - Chicago (River North)
5:15 p.m.
Protest the Hero, The Acacia Strain, Gwen Tracy, White Chapel.
Theater / Theater Event
Kafka on the Shore
Steppenwolf Theatre Company - 1650 N. Halsted St. - Chicago (Sheffield/De Paul)
Tony Award-winner Frank Galati adapts and directs directs Haruki Murakami's novel comparing a young boy's coming of age with an old man's search for destiny in modern day Japan.
Theater / Theater Event
Eurydice
Victory Gardens Biograph Theater - 2433 N. Lincoln Ave. - Chicago (Sheffield/De Paul)
7:30 p.m. preview
In this modern retelling of the classic Greek myth by Evanston native and Pulitzer Prize-nominee Sarah Ruhl ("A Clean House"), Eurydice's wedding plans to her true love Orpheus go awry when she sets off after a man bearing a letter from her dead father and ends up in the underworld.
Music / Hip Hop
Restaurants / Dining Event
Pastapalooza
A Mano - 335 N. Dearborn St. - Chicago (River North)
Share a carb-loaded three-course dinner for two with a companion in honor of the Chicago Marathon (Oct. 12). Partial proceeds benefit Girls on the Run.
Theater / Comedy
No Country for Old White Men
The Second City - 1616 N. Wells St. - Chicago (Lincoln Park)
The 95th sketch comedy revue takes a look at YouTube shenanigans, a visit by the British House of Commons, sweet soul food, girl power and other topics related to the current presidential race.
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