Friday 1/4 – Thursday 1/10
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5 SATURDAY Mike Schratt is convinced the U.S. government possesses technology that would halt aging, allow travel at the speed of light, and get you from Chicago to LA and back for around 11 cents. But, in thrall to the oil industry, the government won’t make the technology public. Electromagnetic propulsion, which Schratt calls the “Holy Grail of the Air Force,” was developed with our tax dollars, and therefore, Schratt believes, we have the right to know about it. In an effort to get the word out, he’ll give a one-hour “graphic rich” slide presentation on fuel-free travel tonight at 8 at the College of Complexes’ meeting number 2,537, Man-made UFOs–America’s Secret Air Force Revealed. It’s at the Lincoln Restaurant, 4008 N. Lincoln (312-326-2120). Tuition is $3, and a food or drink purchase is required.
6 SUNDAY In Alfred Hitchcock’s 1943 film Shadow of a Doubt, Joseph Cotten stars as the suave serial murderer Uncle Charlie who returns to his hometown to visit his sister’s family and is found out by his suspicious niece (Teresa Wright). Reader critic Dave Kehr said that in the work’s “discovery of darkness within the heart of small-town America, [it] remains one of his most harrowing films, a peek behind the facade of security that reveals loneliness, despair, and death.” The Gene Siskel Film Center started a monthlong Hitchcock series on Friday. Shadow of a Doubt runs today and Thursday at 6 at 164 N. State. Admission is $8; call 312-846-2800 for more.
10 THURSDAY Whether Greek or Egyptian, noblewoman, virtuous woman, or femme fatale, depictions of Cleopatra, says local art historian Michelle Paluch-Mishur, tell us more about the culture doing the depicting than about the warrior queen herself. In a slide lecture, Cleopatra, Paluch-Mishur will tell the stories of her life, demise, and image as they’ve been spun through the centuries, from the masculine portraits found on ancient coins to the vampish Elizabeth Taylor in the 1963 film. It’s at 7 PM at the Skokie Public Library, 5215 Oakton in Skokie (847-673-7774). Free tickets will be distributed 30 minutes prior to the start of the program.
