JUNE
Saturday 10
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For its X-Po ’95, Fans of X-rated Entertainment (FOXE) has lined up exotic dancers, a Jell-O wrestling exhibit, a striptease show, demos of new sex products, and even a seminar titled “Sexuality and Spirituality.” It’s today from 11 to 5 and tomorrow from 11 to 4 at the Ramada Woodfield Hotel, 920 E. Northwest Highway in Palatine. Admission is $10. Call 800-457-7556 for more.
If you didn’t find what you were looking for last weekend at the Printers Row Book Fair, you might want to check out the world’s largest used book sale, going on today through next Sunday, June 18, in the parking lot of Northbrook Court shopping center, 2171 Northbrook Court in Northbrook. In addition to the 400,000 books in more than 40 categories that will be for sale, first editions of works by the likes of Raymond Chandler, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes, and Joseph Heller will be auctioned off. Organizers of the sale, the North Shore chapter of the Brandeis University Women’s Committee, request a $5 donation on opening night, but otherwise admission is free. Hours are 6 to 10 tonight, 10 to 10 tomorrow, 11 to 9 Monday through Thursday, 11 to 5 next Friday, June 16, 6 to 10 next Saturday, June 17, and 10 to 5 next Sunday, June 18. Call 708-724-9715.
Fainting brides, screwups in the vows, food poisoning: Martha Stewart may not give you the gory details, but what’s a look at weddings without at least a nod or two in the direction of disaster? That’s the thinking behind Once Upon a Wedding, a 90-minute video of wedding high jinks and problems being shown as part of the Chicago Cultural Center’s monthlong celebration of the nuptial process. It’s at 5:30 this evening in the building’s theater, 78 E. Washington. Admission is free. Call 346-3278.
“You can’t just wake up one morning and say, “Hey, I think I’ll run a marathon,”‘ says the Chicago Area Runners Association’s David Patt. Hence the group’s 18-week marathon training program, which leads up to the Chicago Marathon on October 15. If you get with the program, you get six Tuesday-night clinic sessions including advice on shoes, training, and diet and a regimen of weekend group runs. Clinics begin tonight at 6:30 at the Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine, 1001 N. Dearborn. The program costs $80, $65 for CARA members. Call 666-9836 for more.
“0.999999985621,’ I whispered, setting everybody off into spasms again, and finally we had to leave because we were annoying too many people with our giggling. I guess if you find jokes about decimal places interesting, then you truly are a geek.” And geeks are indeed the heroes of Douglas Coupland’s Microserfs, a parodic fantasy about dissatisfied worker bees in the great house of Microsoft. Still attempting to live down his authorship of the novel Generation X, Coupland reads from the new book tonight at 7:30 at the New Town Barbara’s Bookstore, 3130 N. Broadway. It’s free. Call 477-0411.
