Friday 4
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Lithuanian Christmas-tree ornaments were once made from real straw, but here in America ordinary white drinking straws will do. Helen Pius, who has been teaching this traditional art for more than 25 years, conducts classes at the Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture, 6500 S. Pulaski, every Friday night in November, starting tonight, from 7:30 to 9. You may attend as many classes as you wish. There’s a $6.50 fee your first night to cover the costs of supplies; every additional class costs $3. You must bring your own scissors, pencil, and ruler. Call 582-6500 between 10 and 3 Monday through Friday for more.
Saturday 5
Lapdogs, hunting dogs, William Wegman’s Man Ray, Warhol’s Amos, and Manet and Renoir’s Tama are on the loose in art historian Robert Rosenblum’s The Dog in Art From Rococo to Post-modernism, today’s presentation in Fullerton Hall at the Art Institute. Rosenblum’s semiserious survey of dogs in art illustrates major cultural and social changes over the centuries. The lecture begins at 2 PM and is free, although the museum, located at Michigan and Adams, has a suggested admission of $5. For more call 443-3680.
Up-to-the-minute election results will be aired tonight in English, Polish, German, Italian, Greek, Spanish, Ukrainian, and Assyrian (in that order) during Ethnic Election ’88 on the Ethnic Television Channel 52 on the north, northwest, and west sides, and on Channel 25 everywhere else, including the lakefront. The three-hour program begins at 9 PM with reports presented in half-hour segments in each language. An English wrap-up will be broadcast in between. For a complete schedule call 775-9595.
Lloyd Bentsen may not like it, but John Kennedy and Ronald Reagan did have one thing in common: both of them could charm the press corps. Neither George Bush nor Michael Dukakis makes much of an impression on the media, and that will make the next four years quite different. America’s New President and the Press is the keynote address by John Seigenthaler at the sixth annual benefit dinner for the National Center for Freedom of Information Studies at Loyola University. Seigenthaler is president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, among other things. A reception begins at 5 PM at the Midland Hotel, 172 W. Adams. Tickets are $30. Call 670-3116.
