Friday 22
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George Lucas’s blockbuster movie trilogy that combined old-time serials, dime-store Freudianism, throwback humor, and lots of thrills and chills–we’re talking about the Star Wars saga here–is being given a rare screening this weekend at the Village Theatre, 1548 N. Clark. All the money from ticket and concession sales goes to the Children’s Memorial Medical Center. Star Wars shows at midnight tonight and noon tomorrow; The Empire Strikes Back–that’s the one with Billy Dee Williams–at 2:30 PM and midnight Saturday and noon Sunday; and Return of the Jedi–the one with the little bears and Jabba the Hutt–at noon and midnight Sunday. It’s $5; call 642-2403.
Saturday 23
And if that’s not enough folk for you, Stephen Wade, the performer and writer behind the acclaimed song cycle On the Way Home, will be playing tonight at an event honoring novelist Jack Conroy, the Depression-era worker whose novel The Disinherited is considered a model of working-class lit. Wade will be joined by Douglas Wixson, who’s just published Worker-Writer in America: Jack Conroy and the Tradition of Midwest Literary Radicalism, 1898-1990. It starts at 7 at the Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, 1967 South Campus Drive, on Northwestern’s Evanston campus. It’s free. Call 708-491-4000.
If you can’t make it to the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company shows at the Shubert this weekend, you can get a free preview today at the Harold Washington Library, 400 S. State. The performance begins at 12:15 PM; call 271-7928.
If, like us, you’ve been pondering the “inter-relations of truth and imitation in an attempt to move beyond the current theories of truth,” Loyola has just the conference for you. Unveiling Imitation: Truth and Mimesis in Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Cultural Studies is an international get-together on the subject of out-there French and American literary philosophy, sponsored by Loyola and the College International de Philosophie in Paris. Registration begins at 8:30 AM; the conference runs all day each day through Sunday at Loyola’s Crown Center, Loyola Avenue at Sheridan. Call 508-2865 for more.
