SEPTEMBER Friday 25
We here at Calendar have a personal interest in what the folks at the Panic/Anxiety/Phobia Clinic have to offer: we often exhibit advanced forms of what we call p.r.-o-phobia, defined as extreme fear in the face of press releases or public-relations people. Just joking. But if we weren’t, we’d go to the clinic’s free presentation tonight, Facing Your Fears: Recovery From Panic and Phobias. There’ll be talks and a videotape covering everything from the various manifestations of panic attacks–pounding heart, nausea, fear of losing control–to the various phobias, including standbys like morbid fear of death and agoraphobia and new stuff too, including something called derealization, which the clinic describes as “feeling ‘weird’” (we can relate to that). It’s at 6:30 at 680 N. Lake Shore, suite 1325; call 642-7952.
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There’s now a melancholy note to The 90’s: the TV verite collection of video clips that’s been mixing it up on public television for the past three years recently lost its funding. The show’s charm is that it would broadcast anything–from political documentary to experimentalist mess–as long as it was interesting or, better, funny. The penultimate edition of the show, to run tonight, looks at the two recent political conventions, and includes stuff both serious (a look inside the Clinton command trailer) and entertaining (a run through the convention with street performer Stoney Burke, who accosts Neil Bush and demands, “Why don’t you give the money back?”). That show plays at 10:30 on WTTW, Channel 11. The final episode should air locally around the end of October. Call 321-9321 for details.
Ba mhinic do shil Nora go mba bhrea an saol bheith ag imeacht roimpi ina seabhac siuil gan beann aici ar dhuine ar bith. Pretty intriguing, isn’t it? Well, if you want a translation, you’re going to have to check in with Na Gaeil’s daylong Irish Language Workshop, held today at the Irish-American Cultural Center, 4626 N. Knox. Na Gaeil, which promotes Gaelic language and culture, is offering the class, which runs from 10 to 10, as a way of promoting its fall courses. The group suggests making reservations, though there is a registration for a limited number of spaces at 9 AM. It costs $30. Call 784-2064 or 545-9894 for more.
For the other two readings this evening you’ll have to make a decision. You can spend some time with the writer that Kirkus recently described as “quickly becoming our preeminent novelist of ideas.” Paul Auster reads from his seventh book, Leviathan, at 7:30 at Barbara’s Bookstore, 3130 N. Broadway. Call 477-0411. Or, you can spend some time with Richard Leakey, intrepid paleoanthropologist and articulate writer, who’ll talk about his new book, Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human, at Kroch’s & Brentano’s, 2070 N. Clybourn, also at 7:30. Call 525-2800. Both events are free.
