By Tom Terranova
Alderman Bernard Stone of the 50th Ward has a cameo in tonight’s performance of B.S., the Free Associates’ “so real it’ll make you sick!” spoof of TV hospital dramas a la ER and Chicago Hope. The alderman will play himself in this show, so it’s the perfect opportunity for anyone still pissed off about Stone’s Howard Street wall to heckle him. B.S. runs Fridays at 10:30 at the Ivanhoe Theater, 750 W. Wellington. Tickets are $10. Call 975-7171 for more.
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SUNDAY 25
Austin Allen’s 1994 film Claiming Open Spaces documents the conflict that arose when officials in Columbus, Ohio, closed a park used mainly by African-Americans to make it the center of the city’s Christopher Columbus quincentennial celebration. It also features interviews with activists, urban planners, historians, landscape architects, and park-going residents from four other cities in the U.S. Allen will screen and discuss his film tonight at 6 at the School of the Art Institute’s auditorium, 280 S. Columbus. It’s free, and part of Sculpture Chicago’s “Re-inventing the Garden City” lecture series. For more information call 759-1690 or 443-3711.
Mark Spreyer studied Minnesota’s great gray owls as a graduate student before taking charge of Chicago’s Peregrine Release Program. He’ll demonstrate his ornithological prowess tonight in a presentation sponsored by the North Park Village Nature Association. “Who’s Who of Owls,” a free talk illustrated with live specimens, begins at 7:15 in North Park Village’s administration building, 5801 N. Pulaski. Call 509-0920 for more.
