Events for October 12th, 2008
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Sunday - October 12th
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 / 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 / Dining Event
Sixth Annual Harvest Festival
Bin 36 - 339 N. Dearborn St. - Chicago (River North)
1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Blend a custom cabernet sauvignon-based wine under the guidance of wine director Brian Duncan.
Music / Rock
Badfish - A Tribute to Sublime
House of Blues - 329 N. Dearborn St. - Chicago (River North)
5:30 p.m.
Scotty Don't, Parker House and Theory.
Events / Community Event
'The Fear' Haunted House
Navy Pier - 600 E. Grand Ave. - Chicago (Streeterville)
A tented, outdoor haunted house geared toward teens and adults features caged zombies, werewolves, albino clowns, vampires and hunters. A fireworks display takes place on Fridays and Saturdays through Nov. 1 (9 p.m.).
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.
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
The Threepenny Opera
Steppenwolf Theatre Company - 1650 N. Halsted St. - Chicago (Sheffield/De Paul)
With director Sean Graney at the helm, The Hypocrites theater company tackles a musical for the first time in its production history. The classic melodrama by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill follows the story of a ne'er-do-well whose marriage to a high class girl brings trouble.
Theater / Theater Event
Eurydice
Victory Gardens Biograph Theater - 2433 N. Lincoln Ave. - Chicago (Sheffield/De Paul)
3 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.
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.
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