MARCH Friday 27
If you’re a good hand at the lathe, or want to learn to be, the Chicagoland Woodworking Show is for you. You can attend some of the two-and-a-half hour seminars–$40 a throw, on everything from router technique to building decks and gazebos–or just check out the products and the smaller-scale workshops, today from noon to 7, Saturday from 10 to 6, and Sunday from 10 to 5 in the north hall of the Odeum Sports and Expo Center, 1033 N. Villa in Villa Park. Admission is $6; call 800-826-8257 for details.
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Conway Twitty started out as country and R & B singer Harold Jenkins. Then he changed his name (as the story goes, he just stuck together the names of two towns he’d played), spent some time as a rockabilly man at Sun, and finally crossed over to big pop success. In about 1962 he went back to C and W and has been there ever since. George Jones is merely the greatest living country singer; the two will play together tonight at the Chicago Theatre, 175 N. State, at 8. Tickets are $10-$27.50. Call 629-0334 for details.
The Video Drug series is the newest thing in Japanese animation; you can catch an early peek at it tonight at the Psychotronic Film Society’s weekly showing at Avalon Niteclub, 959 W. Belmont. PFS czar Michael Flores compares the new animation style to a lava light, and he’s just about right: computer-generated hallucinatory graphics percolate to anonymous, pulsating head music. It’s interesting to watch, but it gets old quickly if you haven’t ingested any accompanying hallucinogenic yourself. Hint, hint. The showing begins at 8:30; the $6 admission also gets you in to see the midnight show of the rockin’ and revolting Impotent Sea Snakes. Call 738-0985 for details.
APRIL Wednesday 1
Some might view being trapped in a room with dozens of professed punsters as cruel and unusual punishment (pun-ishment, get it?). Nevertheless, the annual Save the Pun Foundation dinner goes on. This year’s speakers are foundation prez John Crosbie and punster of the year Steve Bhaerman, who writes books under the name Swami Beyondananda. It starts at 6 at the Guest Quarters Suite Hotel, 198 E. Delaware. Tix are $37.50. Call 973-3523 for more.
