Pencil This In

By Chuck Sudo in Arts & Entertainment on Apr 18, 2011 5:40PM

Food
Remember to visit Flourish Bakery's "Family Dinner tomorrow night! We wrote about this a few months back when it was just an experiment, but the project is now going strong! Each Tuesday, Flourish serves up a home-cooked, simple meal for $6 - always featuring home-made breads. This week, revisit your childhood with sloppy joes, on Flourish’s own hamburger buns. Between 5:30 and 8, stop in for dinner or carry out. No reservations, and they go until the food runs out. Adults, feel free to BYOB and bring your childhood memories up to the present.

Music
We’ve written about YAWN before, most recently upon their completion of a continent-spanning music video. Their psych-pop shoegaze shambolic kitchen-sink tunes have won a number of followers around the Chicagoist office and while we may argue with each other over the overall originality of the band the consensus seems to be that the Chicago group is well worth checking out. YAWN opens for Delorean tomorrow, April 19, at Lincoln Hall.

Film
Opening with the famous 1977 clip of actress, orange juice pitchwoman and anti-gay rights activist Anita Bryant being hit in the face with a pie — to which she replied, "at least it was a fruit pie" — Daniel Karslake's For the Bible Tells Me So explores the tense relationship between homosexuality and Christianity by profiling five deeply religious families and how theey deal with a son or daughter coming out to them. Among the families is that of America's first openly gay Episcopalian bishop, Gene Bishop. J.R. Jones's capsule review in the Reader indicates that Karslake's film is slanted toward siding with those who came out and that he could have done a better job to provide a balanced context, but the film does at least dare to broach a subject that isn't cut and dry. For the Bible Tells Me So screens tonight at the Jane Addams Hull House Museum (800 S. Halsted St.) at 6:30 p.m.