Friday 18
WBEZ outcast Stuart Rosenberg will bring back his recently defunct radio show “The Earth Club” in the form of a live concert this afternoon at the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington. In the spirit of the broadcast version, The Earth Club Live! will feature a wide range of musical styles performed by 14 locally based acts, including West African dance band Ghanatta, gifted Irish flutist and former Drover Kathleen Keane, folkies Jim Post and Art Thieme, South American ensemble Raices del Ande, and purveyors of eclecticism themselves Maestro Subgum and the Whole. The show runs from 2 to 5 in Preston Bradley Hall. Admission is free, but seating is limited, so come early. Call 509-8036.
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Ten years before his book Schindler’s List was made into a Steven Spielberg movie, Thomas Keneally served as a consultant for a British TV documentary on the life of Oskar Schindler. Schindler, which includes interviews with some of the people he saved, will be shown tonight following a monthly meeting of the Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois, 4255 W. Main in Skokie. The meeting, promised to be brief, starts at 7:30; refreshments and discussion follow. Call 708-677-4640 for more.
Wednesday 23
Ronnie Reporto, deaf performance artist Peter Cook, and bands Sex With God and Horseshow axe on the bill for A Post-Mortem Valentine’s Ball, organized by the Thunder Road Ensemble and the Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company. And don’t forget to visit Fisto the Clown at the kissing/insult booth. It gets under way at 8 at Sweet Alice, 1056 N. Damen. A buffet dinner is included in the $6 ticket price. Call 871-0442.
