Events for January 8th, 2009
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Thursday - January 8th
Bars & Clubs / Bar/Club Event
Christmas Gift Exchange
Cubby Bear Wrigleyville - 1059 W. Addison St. - Chicago (Wrigleyville)
Bring in any unwanted new items to benefit local homeless charities and receive a bar gift certificate worth $15 or more.
Events / Comedy
New Year, New You
Salon Slice - 3757 N. Racine Ave. - Chicago (Wrigleyville)
Refresh your look and get salon discounts throughout the month of January. Make an appointment for full highlights with Amy and get a free haircut in return. Other deals include $45 partial highlights, half-price waxing services and $50 hourlong facials.
Restaurants / Dining Event
National Spaghetti Day
Angelina Ristorante - 3561 N. Broadway - Chicago (Boystown)
Give a nod to the food holiday with a special menu featuring the celebrated pasta with mussels and zucchini, jumbo shrimp and black olives, or baked with meatballs.
Theater / Comedy
The Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival
Theatre Building Chicago - 1225 W. Belmont Ave. - Chicago (Lakeview)
8 p.m. North: Kerpatty and The Uncomfortables, 8 p.m. South: Buffet Shark and Solo Duet, 8 p.m. West: Denise's Book Club and Tammi, 9:30 p.m. North: Sex Ed with Sex "Ed" Vincent and No Outlet, 9:30 p.m. South: Nerdvana and Long Pork, and 9:30 p.m. West: Hey You Millionaires and Slow Children Crossing
Need a good laugh? See 104 groups peform 131 shows on three stages during the eighth annual festival of funny, featuring groups from Chicago and around the world.
Bars & Clubs / Bar/Club Event
'80s Flashback Night
Kit Kat Lounge & Supper Club - 3700 N. Halsted St. - Chicago (Boystown)
Watch a different flick from the decade each week on five jumbo screens (7 p.m.). Includes $15 tarot readings, retro menu items, $5 VOX cocktails and half-price bottles of wine with the purchase of two entrees. Also, the Kit Kat Divas perform as '80s pop stars and icons.
Theater / Theater Event
The Screwtape Letters
Mercury Theatre - 3745 N. Southport Ave. - Chicago (Lakeview)
A new adaptation of C.S. Lewis' darkly comic novel of the same title, in which human faith and virtue fall prey to the manipulations of devils who, from their office workplace in hell, teach an apprentice demon how to undermine a young man’s recent conversion to Christianity.
Theater / Theater Event
Look, What I Don't Understand
Athenaeum Theatre - 2936 N. Southport Ave. - Chicago (Lakeview)
Actor-writer Anthony Nikolchev performs his dramatic solo show about his family's 1960s escape from Bulgaria to America.
Theater / Comedy
My American Cousin
iO - 3541 N. Clark St. - Chicago (Wrigleyville)
In her solo sketch comedy show, local writer-actress Jameeleh Shelo explores her experiences with cultural pressures and societal assumptions as a Middle Eastern Muslim woman from Chicago's South Side.
Theater / Comedy
The Harold
iO - 3541 N. Clark St. - Chicago (Wrigleyville)
Improv teams explore an audience suggestion using scenes, games and monologues. The 8 p.m. Saturday shows also feature "The Del Tones," an improv musical. The 8 p.m. Friday shows include "The Movie," experimental improv.
Theater / Comedy
ComedySportz
ComedySportz Theatre - 929 W. Belmont Ave. - Chicago (Lakeview)
Two teams of professional comedians compete in this improv show. Includes live musical accompaniment.
