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If you’re really interested in the nearly half-a-million used books collected for the Brandeis University National Women’s Committee’s World’s Largest Used Book Sale, you can shell out five bucks tonight to get an early shot at them. The opening night affair runs 6 to 10 at the site, moved this year to the southeast corner of the back parking lot at the Northbrook Court Shopping Center, half a mile west of the Edens on Lake Cook Road in Northbrook. The sale continues through June 12. It’s free after tonight. Hours vary; call 708-724-9715.
Is it not endlessly fascinating that Charles Gates Dawes, besides being a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, constructor of the Dawes Plan after World War I, ambassador to the Court of Saint James, and veep under Coolidge, was somehow also the cowriter of the classic tune “It’s All in the Game,” a massive number-one 1958 hit for Tommy Edwards? Dawes’s house in Evanston is the general HQ for the Evanston Historical Society, which is marking the beginning of the dwelling’s centennial year with an exhibit of student art depicting the house. The show opens today at 1 with free refreshments and tours, at 225 Greenwood, Evanston. Call 708-475-3410.
A good chunk of the local acting community will be onstage tonight, but not to act. The AIDS Foundation of Chicago is holding a fund-raiser with the Pillar Studio in which members of local theater companies will serve as fashion models. Beggar’s Banquet–A Feast of Fashion includes members of Steppenwolf, Lookingglass, Remains, New Crime, and a lot of other companies showing off duds coordinated by an assortment of professional costume designers; the clothes themselves will come from Betsey Johnson, Hubba Hubba, Toshiro, Strange Cargo, and other keen stores. It’s $20, at 8 PM at Crobar, 1543 N. Kingsbury. Call 258-9005.
For two years, the Guild Complex at the HotHouse has presented the Gwendolyn Brooks Illinois Open Mic Award, wherein about 70 poets recite three-minute poems in competition for a $500 prize–and both years there’ve been far more poets than time. Hence the Second Annual Left Over Poetry Awards. The only difference is that the prize has shrunk to $100. It’s tonight at 7:30 at the club, 1565 N. Milwaukee. Three bucks gets you in. Call 278-2210.
