JULY
If you’re bummed about the plight of HotHouse, which closes down this weekend without a new home in sight, you can say good-bye to the club’s old location, 1565 N. Milwaukee, and help contribute to its moving expenses by attending a farewell show tonight featuring a collaborative performance by master West African musician Hassan Hakmoun, multiinstrumentalist Adam Rudolph, and percussionist Hamid Drake. Testimonials and farewells from HotHouse regulars and friends get under way at 8; the music starts at 9; tix are $15. Tomorrow evening the farewell continues with an avant-garde jazz jam session headed by tenor saxophonist Ernest Dawkins and featuring Edward Wilkerson, Fred Anderson, and other members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. That show starts at 9, and tix are $12. For more info see Peter Margasak’s Critic’s Choice on Hakmoun in Section Three or call 235-2334.
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“Growing up smart in an increasingly dumb world” is the theme of Baby Richard’s Got Back, or It’s Not Easy Being Bob Greene, the 15th revue by the Second City sidekick ensemble known as Second City E.T.C. The cast includes John Hildreth, Dee Ryan, Aaron Rhodes, Brian Stack, Miriam Tolan, and Jim Zulevic; the show opens tonight at 8 and continues Wednesdays and Thursdays at 8:30, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 and 11, and Sundays at 8. Tix are $10 Sunday through Thursday, $12 on Friday, and $15 on Saturday. Second City E.T.C. is at Piper’s Alley, 1608 N. Wells; call 642-8189 for more.
Supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal believe that the journalist and former Black Panther, who’s convicted of killing a Philadelphia police officer, deserves a new trial, and to help prevent the state of Pennsylvania from executing him on August 17 they’re holding a march and rally today at noon at the James R. Thompson Center, 100 W. Randolph. Call 554-0005 or 663-6300 for more.
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