Events for October 12th, 2008
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Sunday - October 12th
Events / Recreation Event
Chicago Marathon
Grant Park - 500 S. Columbus Drive - Chicago (Grant Park Museums)
8 a.m.
Watch 45,000 runners tackle the 26.2-mile course that winds through about 29 city neighborhoods.
Events / Fair/Festival
Chicago Country Music Festival
Soldier Field - 1410 S. Museum Campus Drive - Chicago (Grant Park Museums)
11 a.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Local and national artists highlight the 18th annual fest.
Restaurants / Bar/Club Event
Oktoberfest at Cafe Ciao
Cafe Ciao - 939 W. Madison St. - Chicago (West Loop)
Get $2 domestic bottles, $3 import bottles and $5 microbrews.
Events / Community Event
NextFest
Millennium Park - 201 E. Randolph St. - Chicago (Grant Park Museums)
The fifth annual showcase of emerging technology features nearly 40 exhibits about next-generation interactive art and games, healthcare, robotics and more.
Theater / Theater Event
Night Falls
The Annoyance Theatre - 4830 N. Broadway - Chicago (Uptown)
An homage to ’60s horror TV series such as “The Twilight Zone” and “The Outer Limits,” in which a narrator guides the audience through four “episodes” set in a tiny Maine town that’s trapped in time.
Events / Gallery Exhibit
Jack Kerouac: On the Road
Columbia College Chicago's Center for Book & Paper Arts - 1104 S. Wabash Ave. - Chicago (South Loop)
An exhibition features the original manuscript scroll on which Kerouac wrote the novel "On the Road." All features 66 international book covers of the novel's foreign editions.
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
Dr. Egg and the Man with No Ear
Redmoon Central - 1463 W. Hubbard St. - Chicago (West Town)
A young girl gets more than she bargained for when she seeks out a mysterious doctor to help her father grow back an ear he lost in a fight with a terrier.
Theater / Comedy
Theater / Theater Event
Mike Daisey: If You See Something Say Something
Museum of Contemporary Art - 220 E. Chicago Ave. - Chicago (Gold Coast)
7:30 p.m.
In his humorous and dramatic solo show, Daisey blends personal and national history with notions of security and paranoia. Building narrative threads extemporaneously, each show is slightly different.
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