AUGUST
The second edition of the Oatmeal Journal, an art and comics magazine, gets unveiled tonight at 6:30 at Quimby’s Queer Store. Contributors such as Jason Bell, Greg Cook, Margaret Catania, Sara Peak, and Kari Percival will be on hand to sign copies, and as an added attraction, organizers are raffling off a winter’s supply of oatmeal and a free page in the next Oatmeal Journal. Quimby’s is at 1328 N. Damen. Call 342-0910 for more.
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The film that put the phrase “pass me the butter” into the sexual lexicon returns to town in a restored print. Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris, featuring blistering performances by Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider and containing perhaps the least sentimentalized relationship in film history, will be shown at Facets Multimedia, 1517 W. Fullerton, tonight at 6:45 and 9, tomorrow and Sunday at 4, 6:30, and 9, and next Friday, August 18, at 6:45 and 9. Admission is $5. Call 281-4114.
Chicago’s own Jimmy Damon, who’s touted as the “only man besides Sinatra who can sing Sinatra,” appears tonight in a show called My Way–Jimmy Damon Sings Sinatra at the Park West, 322. W. Armitage. The big Sinatra connection? Ol’ Blue Eyes’ trombonist leads Damon’s 18-piece band. Tix are $50 and $25; the show begins at 7:30. Call 708-595-3076 or 929-5959 for tickets.
Vincent Lonergan and George Goetschel play “classical jazz and musical improvisation” tonight at Through Windows and Doors . . . A Journey of Song, a benefit for the Footsteps Theatre Company. Doors open at 7:15 at the theater, 5230 N. Clark. Music starts at 8. Admission is $10. Call 878-4840 for more.
Wednesday 16
You might have missed Charles Burnett’s critically acclaimed The Glass Shield this summer. It wasn’t around that long–maybe because folks just don’t know what to do with art films by African-American directors. You may also have missed his critically acclaimed To Sleep With Anger, released in 1990, and his 1983 film, My Brother’s Wedding. Well, now you can see the granddaddy of them all: Burnett’s MFA thesis film. Made in 1977 and set 10 years after the Watts riots, Killer of Sheep focuses on a young man who works in a slaughterhouse and the struggles of his black, working-class family. The final film in a series organized by the Chicago Historical Society as part of its “Douglas/Grand Boulevard: The Past and the Promise” exhibit, Killer of Sheep will be screened tonight at 7:30 in the Harold Washington Theater of the DuSable Museum of African American History, 740 E. 56th Place. The cost is $4 for adults, $2 for students, seniors, children, and members of the Chicago Historical Society and the DuSable Museum. Call 642-5035, ext. 383, for more information.
