Cheapies!

By Scott Smith in Arts & Entertainment on Feb 3, 2006 3:00PM

Chicagoist was taking a look at its paycheck today and noticed a distinct lack of zeros. So for the next few days we’re stocking up on Laser and scouting out some cheap events.

TonightNext Friday (sorry!) the University of Chicago student organization The Hive is putting on a free show at Ida Noyes Hall. The bill includes U of C locals The Passerines, recent Chicago transplant Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, and indie pop headliner Saturday Looks Good To Me. Doors open at 8:30 p.m.

PISTIL Magazine is hosting its first slumber party this Saturday at the Hideout. They’re encouraging you to show up in your pajamas for a dance party complete with booze, food, games, and doing each other’s hair. DJ Sprinkler Valve will be spinning and shaving cream on the hand with a feather under the nose is encouraged. Bonus points if you make someone pee themselves by putting their hand in warm water. Cover is $5. All proceeds benefit PISTIL Magazine.

On Monday, a free screening of the film Turning A Corner will be held at Thorne Auditorium on the Northwestern University campus. It’s an hour-long film that explores the nature of the sex trade in Chicago and those that work to raise awareness of this issue. A reception and art show starts at 5:30 p.m. with the screening beginning at 6:15. A panel discussion follows. (If you want things to turn awkward, ask emcee Bernadine Dohrn if she thinks NWU college students should spend their days the way she did at their age).

If none of this lights your fire, you could always slip that 40 of Laser into a brown paper bag and sit at the corner of Milwaukee and Damen and watch the parade of people who have lowered their standards as they stumble out of Estelle’s at 4 AM. That’s always a good free show.