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Rescheduled:
Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson |
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Date & Time: Saturday 11.6 3:30pm Oak Park
In
the follow-up to his shattering autobiography Out of
Control: Confessions of an NFL Casualty, former Dallas
Cowboys star Thomas “Hollywood” Henderson
shares the story of his recovery from the abuse of alcohol
and drugs in IN CONTROL: The Rebirth of an NFL Legend.
Henderson has been clean and sober for over 20 years, In
Control takes readers from Henderson’s
1986 prison release to his current life as a community
activist, philanthropist, and distributor of drug and alcohol
eduction films. He also discusses how his life has changed
since he won $28 million in the Texas lottery. |
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Friday
10.22 4:00pm Navy Pier
Just
in time for Halloween, the Return of R. L. Stine! MOSTLY
GHOSTLY is an all-new series of ghost stories from the past master
of kid scares. Starting with WHO LET THE GHOSTS OUT?, and
HAVE YOU MET MY GHOULFRIEND?, are the eerily hilarious
escapades of Max Doyle, an ordinary kids, with two ghosts
living his bedroom that only he can see. This is Stine’s
first series based around continuing characters, and is
guaranteed to give goosebumps. Call 312.222.0890 for further
details. |
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 Tuesday
10.26 7:30pm UIC
Mark
Falanga was a slick urbanite with a corporate exec wife,
who hung
in the coolest neighborhood in Chicago. But when baby made
three, Mark and family entered the suburban twilight zone,
where many wives stay home and children ride tricycles
in the driveway. With wit and a love of the absurd, Falanga
views his new landscape as a bewildered, gung-ho everyman.
From competitive block parties and a consuming holiday-card
rivalry, to surprises lurking on every corner-such as the
pyromaniac kid next door to the oddly broad-shouldered “lady” on
the commuter train-THE SUBURBAN YOU describes
the vicissitudes of life in the ’burbs.
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 Wednesday
10.27 7:30 pm UIC
NEAR
WEST SIDE STORIES: Struggles for Community in Chicago’s
Maxwell St. Neighborhood is the current and ongoing
story of unequal power in Chicago. In Carolyn Eastwood’s
book four individuals of immigrant (and migrant) family’s
in Chicago’s port-of-entry Near West
Side tell stories of their struggles to save their neighborhood.
All four of these people have spent crucial portions of
their lives here and are ordinary citizens who are extraordinary
in their impact and influence. This is the first in our
ongoing series on Maxwell Street and the Near West Side. |
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 Wednesday
10.27 7:30pm Oak Park
KINKI
LULLABY by local author Isaac Adamson is the latest rapid-fire
installment in the action packed adventure series starring
American based reporter Billy Chaka. Here Billy finds himself
invited to Osaka by the Kinki Foundation, recognizing an
article he wrote, eight years before, about a local teenage,
buraku-puppet prodigy who has since been kicked out of
a prestigious theater company. When an American staying
in his hotel is murdered Billy finds himself investigating,
and plunging into a shadowy, theatrical reality. |
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 Thursday
10.28 7:30pm Oak Park
Houdini
was the greatest escape artist in history, yet known to
his contemporaries as a terrible stage magician. Nevertheless,
he performed a single illusion that has been hotly debated
ever since: Under the bright lights of the Hippodrome Theater,
he made a live elephant disappear. Where did he learn this
amazing trick? How did it work? The astonishing answers
lie in magic expert Jim Steinmeyer’s
chronicle of illusionary innovation, chicanery and espionage,
HIDING THE ELEPHANT: How Magicians Invented the Impossible
and Learned to Disappear. Join us for a night of magic,
both from the page and the stage. |
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Lori
Grove & Laura Kamadulski |
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 Saturday
10.30 4:00 pm UIC
Anyone
who saw Maxwell Street had a story about Maxwell Street.
You didn’t have to shop there, work
there, or eat there. You didn’t have
to be Jewish. You just had to go there or merely pass-by,
in order for it to be in your mind forever. In CHICAGO’S
MAXWELL STREET: Images of America - Lori Grove and Laura
Kamaduski, both members of the Board of the Maxwell Street
Historic Preservation District, share stories and images
from this unforgettable, now lost, world. This event is
part of Barbara’s ongoing series on
Maxwell Street and the Near West Side. |
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October
2004 Book Recommendations & Events Calendar