Friday 21
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Your Imaginary Friends–the group that brought you And We Really Hate Each Other, Three Shiksas, a Goy, and Four Jewboys, and Call-Waiting for Godot–tonight opens its latest effort, The Best Lies We Ever Told, “a musical screwball noir about the existential dread of a group of pasty white kids in their 20s” featuring live music by a local band called the Moviegoers. It plays at 10:30 Friday and Saturday nights at Puszh Studios, 3829 N. Broadway, through March 28. Tickets are $5; call 327-0231.
Saturday 22
Department of sexy-dance crazes: The Argentine Chicago Dance Association holds its monthly tango night tonight from 7 to 10 at Chicago Dance, 3660 W. Irving Park; admission is $5. They also hold classes every Wednesday at 8, same place; details at 267-3411.
Drug legalization will be the subject of tonight’s debate between William Heffernan, operations manager for Bensinger, DuPont and Associates, a consulting firm for corporate drug testing and drug-abuse treatment, and local legend Richard Dennis, chairman of the board of advisers for the Drug Policy Foundation. The discussion starts at 6:30 in room 30 of Loyola University’s Marquette Center, 47 E. Pearson. It’s free; call 508-2221.
Former junkie, onetime Warhol hanger-on, poet, author (The Basketball Diaries), and occasional songwriter (“People Who Died”) Jim Carroll reads tonight at 10 at Lounge Ax, 2438 N. Lincoln. Cover is $10. Call 525-6620.
