Friday 10
If you’re convinced that your teddy bear is better than their teddy bears, the Brookfield Zoo’s Teddy Bear Contest is just for you. Bears will be judged in five categories: largest, most snuggled, best dressed, most original, and most resembling its owner (the last category seems a bit of a dubious honor). It’s all a part of the zoo’s Teddy Bear Picnic today and tomorrow, which includes (both days) breakfast at 9 AM (all you can eat, $9.75 for adults and $6.50 for kids), a teddy bear clinic from 11 to 3 for worn or frayed teddies, and a parade at 1 PM. The contest is at 1:30. Everything but the breakfast comes with zoo admission, which is $2.75 for adults, a buck for kids and seniors, and free for the under-three set. The zoo is at First Avenue and 31st Street in Brookfield. Call 708-485-0263.
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Monday 13
Wednesday 15
The Radiators play a pungent olio of New Orleans R & B, freewheeling jazz, and upbeat rock ‘n’ roll. They’re playing–free–at Navy Pier tonight, in a concert sponsored by a stupid cigarette company we’re not even going to name. The show starts at 6:30 at Grand Avenue and the lake; it’s one of a series at the pier over the next few weeks that will bring nuclear-strength cabaret act Buster Poindexter August 23 and the blistering grooves of Kid Creole and the Coconuts August 30. Details? Call 751-2121.
