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We hope some of you got a chance to go to something at the Chicago Book Festival last week, but if not, here’s your chance. Our take on the second week: Jeffrey Toobin, CNN’s senior legal analyst, discusses and signs his newest book The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, and maybe adds a few pointers for broke Chicagoists. Monday, Oct. 8, 6 p.m., Harold Washington Library, 400 S. State St., Cindy...

Quirky Places to Take Kids?

Who knew that U of C's DOC Films has been showing movies for 75 years? (Rhetorical question, as we're sure that many of you already knew that.) Well, they have. In fact they're the longest continuously running student film society in the U.S. As you can imagine, they've collected a lot of cool mementos in that time. Things like letters from Samuel Fuller and Jean Renoir, movie posters autographed by Hitchcock, and old programing calendars. And, yes, Fritz Lang's martini recipe (we're anxious to compare it Buñuel's). They're putting some of the neater stuff on display with a new exhibition which opens today and runs through August 31 at the school's Joseph Regenstein Library, 1110 E. 57th St. There's an opening reception this afternoon from 3:00 to 4:30 in the gallery.

By now the holiday hangovers should have subsided, and you're figuring out how to once again ruin your liver and make some bad decisions. If that's the case, we have one suggestion: go to Debonair Social Club tonight. The main attraction is Wisconson-based white-boy rapper Juiceboxxx, a dude who sounds like a Casio keyboard version of Spank Rock, with more of a "everybody jump and sweat" message. One can only hope he plays ALL FOUR...

This afternoon, gangs of Chicago artists are out to change the way you think about Independence Day, slaying sacred cows and cherished myths. Myth #1: July 4 is a time to put politics aside and celebrate America. For Feel Tank Chicago, the personal is political. And that includes how we celebrate The Fourth. Rather than marching lockstep with Team USA cheerleaders, loving their country right or wrong, the artistic collective has planned this afternoon’s Fifth...

members, New Jersey skate shop owner, and writer for several alt publications, Chris just released his first book, Skinema, a mash-up of previously published porno reviews that have little or nothing to do with the films themselves. Instead, Chris uses the space to relate perhaps even dirtier stories involving hookers, transvestites and/or vomit in exploitative, hilarious articulation.

Where Can I Get a Tattoo?

• The local film DIMENSION is screening tomorrow at the prestigious Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose. In the film, three lonely residents of a Chicago neighborhood are divinely granted a wish. But it comes with a condition: they can only change exactly three inches about themselves. The movie was shot in Chicago during the summer of 2005, and it's one of only fourteen movies in competition in the festival's Maverick Narrative Category. Let's hope a Chicago screening is on the horizon.
• On Saturday, the really cool Intuit Center concludes their ELUSIVE Evidence series of film screenings about extraterrestrials with John Carpenter's cult classic They Live. And 80's WWF wrestler "Rowdy" Roddy Piper plays a drifter who stumbles upon a weird set of sunglasses; when he dons them he's able to see the truth: evil aliens have disguised themselves as businessmen and politicians, keeping the earth's population docile through the use of subliminal messages. This flick has always been a favorite of ours, fondly remembered from countless Saturday afternoon showings on a local low-powered UHF channel. The Intuit Gallery is at 756 N. Milwaukee Ave.; the show begins at 2 p.m., and admission is free (donation suggested).
• Saturday night at Chicago Filmmakers you can see what Dick's Staff Shot. (Get your minds out of the gutter!) "The Nixon White House Staff Super-8 Films" consists of ultrarare "home movies" from the Nixon Administration! The footage was shot by Tricky Dick's staffers between 1969 and 1974 and later confiscated from John Erlichman's office by the FBI. Included are scenes from a performance of the musical 1776; Nixon visiting a Washington Redskins football practice; and appearances by Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash, Indira Ghandi, Bob Hope, and Pat Boone. Admission is $8; more info at the Chicago Filmmakers site.

We haven't made our way down to the recently-opened Juicy Wine Company on Milwaukee Avenue yet, but their pricing strategy is something we can definitely get behind. It's also a risky proposition, if it doesn't work.

It seems like everyone is running for their old seat this year. Ambrosio Medrano in the 25th, Virgil Jones in the 15th Percy Giles in the 37th, and Wallace Davis Jr in the 2nd, all want their old jobs back. Add to that list former 35th Ward alderman Vilma Colom, (the only one, at least on this list), that didn't lose her job to a corruption conviction.

The Sun-Times News Wire is reporting, via CBS 2, that animal cruelty charges may be pending after a goat's skull was found in a building at 2901 N. Milwaukee Ave. A police lieutenant quoted in the article hinted that the goat could have been sacrificed in a Santeria ritual (the religion, not the song). Details are still sketchy, but no Cubs fans were seen leaving the premises.

When its lease expires, the Spareroom arts cooperative will pack up the moving trucks and ship out to some exotic new locale. They don’t yet know where, but the collective in charge is bound to make nice with a new landlord amenable to artists collaborating and developing ideas on the cheap: space rental costs a mere $4 to $7.50/hour. The Spareroom serves those talented, driven, young (and youngish) artists and performers lacking the cash or...

City Bike Paths?

We’ll admit it: we’re Anglophiles. We check in regularly on our British cousins and try to impress our friends with half-assed James Bond and John Cleese impersonations. And when we discovered a new crop of British imports opening on Chicago stages last week, we couldn't resist. Funny how a week of watching anxious characters speaking the Queen’s English reminded us why so many Brits glorify life on our side of the pond.

Our weekend visit to Intuit’s quirky outsider art gallery sure was fun. Maybe not Academy Awards fun or drunken Milwaukee Art Museum party fun, but we did enjoy old timey photos of strangers made ghostly by double exposures and other such manipulation. Sixty-five of these photos comprise Intuit’s “Accidental Mysteries” exhibit, a peek into the John and Teenuh Foster collection of ‘vernacular photography.’ These found snapshots by anonymous photographers of unknown subjects range from...

We love give-aways! So we're setting one up for you, and this one is rockin'. Chicagoist will be giving away five copies (FIVE COPIES?!) of Jeff Chang's "Can't Stop Won't Stop, A History of the Hip Hop Generation". Just click on the link below, give us your information and we’ll get you entered. You’ve got till the end of the week to sign up and we'll notify you by email if you've won!

826CHI is a great local nonprofit center that tutors kids, holds after-school workshops, provides help for English language learners, and gives assistance with student publications. But they need help raising money to support these programs.

So far the smoking ban hasn't affected us that much, except for the pondering of whether or not a certain bar will still allow it or exactly how far is 15 feet? Last night Chicagoist stopped by the Marshall McGearty Tobacco Lounge (1553 N. Milwaukee Ave.) and indulged in some coffee and cigarettes.

http://neighborhoodies.com/design/morning_announcements/morning_announcements.php">announced today that they're opening a store on Milwaukee Ave, in Wicker Park. Who isn't these days!? But Chicagoist is actually excited about this one because we've been fans of Neighborhoodies for years.. it's our favorite place to go for personalized clothes. We've got several things we ordered from them (including these nerdy hotpants that were given to us - nice ass, huh?) and we're afraid having them so close is going to prompt us to buy even more.. not that that's a bad thing!

Last night Chicagoist went to Cooking Fools (love it!) to get some sides to go with our dinner. When we were walking home on Milwaukee Ave. we noticed this group of people kind of dressed up like pirates, who were marching down the street. Some of them were even playing drums and instruments. We've racked our brains as to what this could have been, but all we can think of is that International Talk Like A Pirate Day is coming up.. but that's not until September 19. What gives?!

Labor Day is traditionally the symbolic end of summer in Chicago, but for the local art scene it marks a major transition. Chicagoist missed a rash of summer exhibition closings last weekend but, as much as we procrastinate, don’t plan to make the same mistake this weekend. Schneider Gallery’s Portrait closes Saturday. The exhibit brings together seven photographers who capture their subjects unconventionally but in deeply affecting and sometimes freaky ways. Down the block, Saslow...

Sure to please Adrian Monk, the obsessive-compulsive genius detective from the TV show Monk, drivers in Chicago will be able to clean up their cars for FREE. Compliments of USA, the network Monk is on, free car washes will be available to the first 120 customers on Friday, July 1, July 8, and July 15. Head over to one of these locations: Car WashLocationTimes White Glove Car Wash1415 W. Shakespeare Ave., Chicago Noon - 2:00...

The fourth annual Version festival, "a festival that focuses on art, media, technology and politics," opens tonight and this year's is titled "Invincible Desire". It's "an experiment in navigating the subcultural practices determined to flourish at this inhospitable moment past the end of history." We apologize for all the quotes, but we can't quite decipher it and don't want to misinterpret anything. Plus, you know the Chicagoist motto, "We report, you decide." Well actually, we're already at a bar and we're running out of quarters for the dollar-a-minute Internet access so we gots ta finish this right quick.

Everybody's favorite rock stars Bucktown and Wicker Park are selling out. It used to be about the art man, but now they're releasing sugary pop songs written by Swedes and advertisements disguised as pop-art. We knew the day would come, ">rumors have been circulating, and it's enough to make us cry little struggling-artist tears. Won't somebody please think of the hipsters! Crain's reports (subscription may be required) today that the following chain-stores are infiltrating the...