Events for October 7th, 2008
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Tuesday - October 7th
Events / Literature Event
The Great Chicago Book Sale
International House, University of Chicago - 1414 E. 59th St. - Chicago (Hyde Park/University Of Chicago)
9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
The University of Chicago Press hosts its first public sale in more than 20 years. Browse more than 20,000 hardcovers and paperbacks priced at $5 each, ranging in genre from anthropology to poetry to zoology.
Events / Community Event
Art Thing
Hyde Park Art Center - 5020 S. Cornell Ave. - Chicago (Hyde Park/University Of Chicago)
A monthly series features talks by artists and curators about current exhibitions. Includes wine and cheese.
Events / Literature Event
Kevin Coval reading
57th Street Books - 1301 E. 57th St. - Chicago (Hyde Park/University Of Chicago)
6 p.m.
The author, educator, HBO Def Poet and founder of Louder than a Bomb: The Chicago Teen Poetry Festival reads from his newly released book "Everyday People."
Theater / Theater Event
Dirty Dancing--The Classic Story on Stage
Cadillac Palace Theatre - 151 W. Randolph St. - Chicago (Loop)
The Broadway touring production of the classic musical film (both written by Eleanor Bergstein) about a privileged girl who falls in love with a male professional dancer from the wrong side of the tracks.
Theater / Theater Event
Carpenters' Halloween
Mary's Attic - 5400 N. Clark St. - Chicago (Andersonville)
Local cabaret duo Scott Bradley and Jonny Stax perform a campy musical tribute to the 1978 John Carpenter slasher film, "Halloween," set to music by Karen and Richard Carpenter.
Theater / Theater Event
Free Night of Theater
Various locations - Chicago - Chicago
As part of a nationwide campaign, theaters offer free tickets to current shows. The only stipulations are that you pick a theatre you haven’t attended previously and you are limited to two tickets. New blocks of tickets go on sale each Tuesday.
Movies / Movie Event
Doc Films
Ida Noyes Hall, University of Chicago - 1212 E. 59th St. - Chicago (Hyde Park/University Of Chicago)
7 p.m. "One On Top of the Other"
Billed as the longest continuously running student film society in the nation, the program features Hollywood classics, experimental films and more.
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.
Museums / Museum Exhibit
Smart Home: Green + Wired
Museum of Science and Industry - 5700 S. Lake Shore Drive - Chicago (Hyde Park/University Of Chicago)
Tour a three-story sustainable "green" home constructed on the museum's grounds
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