NOVEMBER
Gay male performers from the local theater, poetry, video, publishing, and performance-art scenes are coming together for the second Pansy Kings’ Cotillion. This year’s Cotillion is emceed by poetry-slam champ David Kodeski and his partner Edward Thomas-Herrera and will feature performances by its creator and producer, Dave Awl, and a host of other new and returning Pansy Kings. It’s happening at the Neo-Futurarium, 5153 N. Ashland, tonight and Saturday at 8. Tickets are $10. Call 989-8499 for info and reservations.
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The Lake County Model Railroad Club is opening its doors to outsiders this weekend for its annual fall open house. The 25 members are proudly displaying their labor of love: a 30-by-60-foot HO-scale layout of the Wauconda Central Railroad with 2,000 feet of track. They’re also showing railroad videos and raffling off prizes. The club is located at 107 S. Main Street (rear) in Wauconda. Admission is free. They’re open from 11 to 6 today and Sunday. Call 708-634-6788 for more.
After failing to win hunky Noah back from his new love Julia by pretending to be pregnant with his baby, Taylor is trying to draw more sympathy from him by pretending she had a miscarriage. Poor Noah (or at least the actor who plays him) is finally getting a break from Taylor and all the craziness of Pine Valley. Keith Hamilton Cobb will be in Chicago tonight along with All My Children costars James Kiberd (Trevor), Jill Larson (Opal), and Kelly Ripa (Hayley) to auction off travel packages, various autographed bric-a-brac, and a fabulous fuchsia ball gown donated by AMC bitchqueen Susan Lucci. The celebrity auction goes from 7 to 10 at the Stouffer Renaissance Chicago Hotel, 1 W. Wacker. It’s $45 and the proceeds go to UNICEF. Call 670-2379 for tickets and info.
Monday 6
Local women with pocket change and a love of ballroom dancing don’t have to look beyond Eugene’s Fireside Banquet facility in Morton Grove, which is home to the Dime a Dance Club. Every Tuesday night from 7:30 to 11 male ballroom dancers are on hand to take ten-cent tickets from those in need of a partner. As a further touch of nostalgia, cigarette girls walk around selling candy smokes, bubblegum cigars, licorice pipes, and corsages. Ten dollars gets you in and includes a buffet. Eugene’s is at 9101 N. Waukegan in Morton Grove. Call 708-966-9600 for more information.
“Our elf cannot be associated with any production that has “lesbian’ in the title,” is what the Keebler higher-ups reportedly told the folks staging Vampire Lesbians of Sodom. Keebler reneged on a deal to have their mascot “Ernie the Elf” make an appearance in each performance. They’re even reclaiming all the promotional cookies earmarked for distribution at performances. This sounds pretty fishy coming from a company whose cartoon spokeself lives in a tree with a bunch of his pals–sans lady elves. In the meantime the show presses on, elfless, Thursdays at 8:30, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:45 and 9:45, and Sundays at 7. Tickets are $17.50 for Sunday and Thursday shows, and $22.50 for Friday and Saturday shows. It’s happening in the Theatre Building, 1225 W. Belmont. Call 327-5252 for tickets and information.
