Friday 7
In the Sun-Times some time ago, comedy correspondent Ernest Tucker profiled a comedian named Hugh Fink. Fink’s metier, Tucker wrote, is taking on “sacred” targets like Kasey Kasem, who the story said had “cashed in on his celebrity status to start crusading for Arab rights.” (Generally people cash in on something that can make them more money.) That Arab-bashing can even creep into innocuous entertainment coverage indicates how widespread it is in the American media; presumably, that’ll be one of the topics discussed today by a panel on The Media and the Arab World. Speakers include Erwin Knoll, editor of the Progressive, on “Enough Lies to Last You a Lifetime: How the Media Covered the War.” It’s part of the 23rd annual convention of the Association of Arab-American University Graduates held this weekend at Northwestern. The panel on the press, at 1:30, is one of four today in the Coon Forum of Leverone Hall, 2003 Sheridan Road in Evanston. Admission to the day of panels is $20, $15 for AAUG members, $10 if you’re a student. Call 708-869-7621.
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Gene Esposito has a dream–a Chicago jazz arts center, with stages, offices, rehearsal studios, and library, to better focus the city’s jazz community. The pianist, composer, and arranger, noted for his work with Woody Herman and as a local bandleader, is overseeing Second City Goes Jazz, a benefit for his proposed nonprofit jazz center, Jazz Idiom. Scheduled: Jerry Coleman’s Nineburner, the Jazz Idiom Orchestra, and Ruben Alvarez’s Sun Sounds. It’s at 7:30 tonight at Second City, 1616 N. Wells. Tickets are $12 in advance, $15 at the door. Call 871-5146 or 944-0948 for details.
The real cause of the $200 billion savings and loan debacle, the chances that the nation’s banks will fall into the same swamp, and what should–as opposed to what will–be done about it are a few of the questions that panelists in a free seminar at Loyola University will talk about today. Participating: Elijah Brewer, a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago; Continental Bank VP Richard Peterson, and Loyola econ professor George G. Kaufman. The Banking Crisis: Causes and Solutions starts at 5:15 PM in the Georgetown Room of the Marquette Center, 47 E. Pearson. It’s free. Reserve a seat at 915-7286.
