Pencil This In

By Staff in Arts & Entertainment on Oct 4, 2011 5:20PM

Discussion on Dance

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago resident choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo will discuss the dance troupe's production of Nacho Duato’s Arcangelo with TimeOut Chicago dance editor Zachary Whittenburg 7 p.m. this evening at the Instituto Cervantes of Chicago auditorium at 31 W. Ohio St. The discussion is free and open to the public. A wine reception will follow. Hubbard Street Dance's production of Arcangelo has four performances at the Harris Theater, Oct. 13 at 7:30 p.m.; Oct. 14 and Oct. 15 at 8 p.m.; and Oct. 16 at 3 p.m.

Film

October means horror films and one of Boris Karloff's most underrated ones screens at the Portage Theater tomorrow. The Black Room stars Karloff as twin brothers who have separated voluntarily to stave off a curse - one will kill the other in the black room that is the ttle of the film. When one twin wreaks havoc across his countryside, the other returns as a moderate force for good. The pitchforks and torches mob of Frankenstein find a political target here, rather than a supernatural one. (4050 N. Milwaukee Ave.; 7:30 p.m.; $5)

Activism

The Chicago Clean Power Coalition is taking their fight to close the Fisk and Crawford Coal plants to the heart of Chicago Thursday with a petition signing from 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. outside the Richard J. Daley branch of the Chicago Public Library (3400 S. Halsted St.). The petitions gathered will be walked to the 11th Ward Democratic Committee offices of Cook County Commissioner John Daley and 11th Ward Ald. James Balcer.

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