By Cara Jepsen
Last year’s 12 Monkeys was loosely based on Chris Marker’s 1964 black-and-white classic La jetee, which follows a man’s decision to live in the past and consists almost entirely of still photographs. Tonight’s Memory, History, Consciousness: The Video and Television Work of Chris Marker includes Berlin 1990, which looks at daily life in recently reunified Berlin; Tarkovsky, a profile of the Russian director; and Chat ecoutant la musique (“Cat Listening to Music”), starring Marker’s cat. The program shows at 7 and 9:15 tonight and tomorrow and at 5:30 and 7:45 Sunday at Facets Multimedia Center, 1517 W. Fullerton. Tickets are $5. Call 281-9075.
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Today is one of the last days Chicago motorists can buy their 1996-’97 city sticker without paying a $30 late fee–not that the $60 the city charges for most vehicles isn’t already highway robbery. To make it easier to take your money, the city clerk’s office is holding a vehicle sticker sale. In other words, the office will process registration renewals from 9 to 2 today at 121 N. LaSalle, room 107. Bring a checkbook and a completed renewal application. Stickers will also be sold at a handful of aldermanic offices throughout the city. Call 744-5670 for more.
Riding with 10,000 other bicyclists may not produce the same heady rush as riding alone on deserted city streets in the middle of the night, but that’s how many people are expected at today’s L.A.T.E. (Long After Twilight Ends) Ride, a noncompetitive 25-mile tour of the lakefront, downtown, and north side. Registration starts at midnight Saturday, and the ride begins at 1:30 AM today at Buckingham Fountain, at Columbus and Congress, in Grant Park. The $25 registration fee, which benefits Friends of the Parks, gets you a map, refreshments at rest stops, and a sunrise breakfast. Riders must wear helmets. Call 918-7433.
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Nowadays you don’t even need to pack a meal to enjoy a picnic under the stars at Ravinia: the festival will prepare your dinner and deliver it to your lawn seats–for a fee, of course. All you need to do is show up with the requisite candles and ground covering–unless you choose the $22 Instant Ravinia package, which includes a lawn chair rental with your box dinner. Now, if only they’d provide shuttle service from the city. Tonight Itzhak Perlman joins conductor Christoph Eschenbach and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for a performance of selections from Berlioz, Rouse, and Brahms. The concert starts at 8 at Ravinia Festival at Green Bay and Lake Cook Roads in Highland Park. Tickets are $8 to $50. Call 728-4642.
