Friday 17
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Get ready for this three-hour marathon: Sixties Underground: Be-In, a retrospective of underground films from that decade. Sponsored by the Experimental Film Coalition, the celluloid orgy includes Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable, a psychedelic light show featuring the Velvet Underground and Nico in a 1968 Chicago club appearance; Robert Frank’s Life-Raft Earth, about an enviromentalists’ demonstration; and Oh Dem Watermelons, a funky antiracist protest film. It’s at 8 tonight and tomorrow at Randolph Street Gallery, 756 N. Milwaukee. Tickets are $4, $3 for students. For a full list of films call 666-7737.
Saturday 18
A Full Night of Jewish Entertainment means Jewish soul music, sharp-tongued comedy, and story telling. North Shore Congregation Israel is throwing a party featuring the Maxwell Street Klezmer Band, comedienne Caryn Bark, storyteller Susan Stone, and the Chicago Symphony’s tuba player Ariel Sasson. It’s all at 7:30 PM at the temple, 1185 Sheridan in Glencoe, Tickets are $4 at the door. Call 427-5570.
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