Friday 20
A guided bird walk at 8 AM starts off today’s Earth Day activities at the North Park Village Nature Center. Joining the center’s staff in a daylong hands-on nature celebration will be members of the American Indian Business Association. From 10 to 4 today, they’ll share stories, lead games, and supervise craft projects. It’s all free at 5801 N. Pulaski. Call 583-8970.
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Frank Melcori and Jim Baker are emphatic when they say that what they’re doing with Allen Ginsberg’s Howl isn’t just a reading-with-music thing. “I see it as a situation in which Jim and I accompany each other,” says Melcori, who will read from Ginsberg’s classic poem while pianist Baker contributes something in the way of sound. They don’t call it a performance or an interpretation; they call it a production of the Italian American Theatre, the same folks who brought us Silent Othello and Letters From Prison. Show time is 8:30 tonight and next Sunday at Club Lower Links, 954 W. Newport. Tickets are $4. Call 248-5238.
It’s an encore performance for Dr. Susan Lee, a psychologist who’s also the chairperson of Northwestern’s theater department; her last appearance before Women in Film was so enormously successful that the group asked her back. She’ll speak on Women, Creativity and Aging at today’s 7 AM breakfast at the Holiday Inn City Centre, 300 E. Ohio. Tickets are $17, $12 for WIF members. Reservations are recommended, so call 372-2376.
Oliver Stone’s upcoming movie about Jim Morrison and the Doors will probably send the price of tickets to hear Ray Manzarek soaring. But you can hear the legendary Doors keyboardist accompany poet Michael McClure in a special concert tonight. According to the press release, McClure was Morrison’s role model. It starts at 10 at Lounge Ax, 2438 N. Lincoln. Tickets are $10. Call 525-6620.
