Pencil This In

By Staff in Arts & Entertainment on Jun 22, 2011 5:20PM

Music

Do312.com celebrates its one-year anniversary with a concert at Schubas tomorrow night at 8 p.m. Peter Wolf Crier and Yellow Ostrich will play with DJ sets in between by Team Bayside High, Greg Corner and Mother Hubbard.

Film

5th Avenue Girl is an underrated Ginger Rogers film that doesn't pair her with Fred Astaire. Rogers plays an out-of-work woman who, after a chance encounter with a wealthy industrialist played by Walter Connolly, is hired to act as his mistress after he sees the reaction she receives from his otherwise bored family. Frank Nugent of the New York Times wrote the film off as something cheerful and cheerfully unimportant, but in retrospect the film takes quite a few admirable jabs at our country’s bumbling aristocratic upper class. It serves as an example of how directors circumvented the restrictions of the Hays Code in its day. (Portage Theater, 4050 N. MIlwaukee Ave., 7:30 p.m., $5)

Readings

The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott author Kelly O’Connor McNees will discuss her novel and the effect of the U.S. Civil War on young Miss Alcott at the Harold Washington Library's Authors Room at 6 p.m. Participants who stay after this program are welcomed to join a guided tour of the Library’s exhibit commemorating the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. (400 S. State St.)

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