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Chi-town comedian and actress-done-good Nora Dunn is putting on a one-woman show tonight that promises to include some of her most famous Saturday Night Live characters, including Pat Stevens and Liz Sweeney of the Sweeney sisters, as well as a whole slew of new personalities. It’s part of a fund-raiser for the Discovery Board of the Goodman Theatre and includes a light buffet. It starts at 7–Dunn performs at 8:30–at the ballroom of the School of the Art Institute, 112 S. Michigan. Tickets are $95. Call 435-2771 for more. Filmmakers Kate Kirtz and Nell Lundy will be at tonight’s screening of their documentary Jane: An Abortion Service, which tells the story of the counseling and referral service that helped safely–and illegally–terminate some 12,000 pregnancies in the years before Roe v. Wade. The film starts at 8 at the Film Center, Columbus Drive at Jackson. Tickets are $6. Call 443-3737 for more information.
Music, poetry readings, and refreshments kick off the reopening of the 15-year-old Peace Museum today. Its new 3,000-square-foot space, at 314 W. Institute, houses its store, resource center, and permanent collection, which includes work by John Lennon, John Heartfield and Fritz Eichenberg. The celebration is from 2 to 6 today at the museum. It’s $15, $10 for members. Call 440-1860 for more.
Invariably, friends returning from Europe in recent years have said they met at least one person who claimed the Holocaust never happened or that the number of victims had been exaggerated. Tonight David Frolick of North Central College gives a talk on Holocaust revisionism in postcommunist Eastern Europe at the Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois, 4255 W. Main in Skokie. The lecture is $15, $12 for members and students. Call 847-677-4640 for more.
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