Friday 11/21 – Thursday 11/27
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“Skinny girls are in, but fat’s where it’s at,” says Patrick Lovelace, who started holding Big Beautiful Woman events three years ago under the moniker Big Boi ’00 Entertainment. All sizes are welcome to attend the monthly theme dances, but their purpose is “to glorify big, beautiful women”–and the ratio is usually three girls for every boy. Tonight’s adults-only Leather Lovers Dance Party features a buffet, door prizes, and music by DJ James E. It’s from 8 to 2 at the Days Inn, 1900 Mannheim in Melrose Park. Admission is $10 before 9, $15 after. For more call 630-336-1470 or see groups.yahoo.com/group/bigboient/.
22 SATURDAY Religion scholar Huston Smith interviews a delegation of Native American spiritual leaders and activists in the new documentary A Seat at the Table: Struggling for American Indian Religious Freedom, which was shot during the 1999 Parliament of the World’s Religions in South Africa. The film examines the effects of everything from early attempts to convert Native Americans to Christianity to current rules limiting the spiritual practice of incarcerated Native Americans. Phil Cousineau, Smith’s collaborator on the project, will discuss the film at today’s screening, which takes place at noon at the Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State. Tickets are $10. For more call 312-346-7003. The film’s also screening tomorrow, November 23, at 11 as part of the First Nations Film & Video Festival. It’s at the American Indian Center, 1630 W. Wilson, and it’s $5. For more call 773-275-5871 or see the sidebar in Section Two.
25 TUESDAY Since some plants need a third party to procreate, they use everything from traps and deception to killing to coerce bees and other insects into pollinating them. “In nature there are a lot more soap-opera-ish things going on than you’ll ever find on TV,” says Lynn Hepler, director of education at the Lake County Forest Preserve. “Although I don’t think there are as many cases of amnesia.” She’ll give a free talk called The Sex Life of Plants tonight at a meeting of the Evanston North Shore Bird Club. It’s at 7:30 at the Ecology Center, 2024 McCormick in Evanston, 847-864-5181.
