Fort Sheridan beachfront
You’ve got some tough choices this weekend…
Don’t Mess With Mother Nature!
In fact, you can do just the opposite by joining the Alliance for the Great Lakes in their Annual September Adopt-a-Beach™ Cleanup at the Fort Sheridan Forest Preserve beach on Lake Michigan. We visited there a few weeks ago – it’s a quiet, beautiful place to walk, bird-watch or enjoy the beachfront. You can register for the cleanup event online, or you can just show up. Saturday morning from 9AM til noon.
The Skokie Theatre presents the fabulous Sherrill Douglas in two shows this weekend.
(We’ve heard she’s the best straight female impersonator around!)
Patsy Cline
On Saturday, September 19 at 8PM, see CRAZY ABOUT PATSY, A Musical Tribute to Patsy Cline. Hear Crazy, Walking after Midnight, I Fall to Pieces, Sweet Dreams, She’s Got You, You Belong to Me and all Patsy’s hits. The costumes, the vocal style, and range…you’ll think you are hearing Patsy Cline in her prime!
Sherrill Douglas as Dolly Parton
Sunday, September 20 at 2PM it’s a A TRIBUTE TO DOLLY PARTON. Hear Coat of Many Colors, I Will Always Love You, Jolene, 9 to 5. She sounds like Dolly, she looks like Dolly and “she does Dolly right!”
Click here to listen to Sherrill Douglas (go to the audio menu for the Sherrill Douglas juke box). Click here for TICKETS!.
Remember Steve Goodman? He wrote what some people say is the best train song ever written: City of New Orleans. Hard to believe that Steve Goodman has been gone 25 years…
Here’s Steve singing A Dying Cub Fan’s Last Request…
On Sunday, September 20 (the anniversary of Steve’s passing) Norm Siegel, long time fixture on the Chicago folk scene, will host this informal LilFest night of songs and remembrances of Steve Goodman.
It will be happening at Bill’s Chicago Blues Bar and Club, 1029 Davis St. in Evanston.
The music, the stories and memories will start around 7:00PM. And since the WFMT Midnight Special Benefit lasts until 7PM, the show will run late. As it should!
Save airfare – go to Highwood for the Parisian Flea Market!
Another of our faves…click here for last visit to the Flea Market, or here for our flickr pics.
Saturday and Sunday, from 10AM to 5PM in Highwood. There will be over 50 vendors. On our last visit we found antiques, stuffed ducklings, chandeliers, garden furniture, baseball cards, unbelievable fresh sweet corn, lamp shades, even a Virgin Mary statue for your shrine, should you have one. See what you can find!
Stay home. Watch TV. “Bored to Death.”
We admit it. We stay home and watch TV sometimes. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
On Sunday at 8:30 on HBO, “Bored to Death” premieres. Jason Schwartzman (The Darjeeling Limited, Rushmore, Shopgirl, I ♥ Huckabees, Spun, and Slackers) stars as Brooklyn novelist who moonlights as a private detective. We don’t recommend such a career choice to all Brooklyn novelists, but the series sounds pretty funny. Ted Danson (remember him from Cheers? or maybe Curb Your Enthusiasm?) co-stars.
I totally want to be a private detective.
Do you think that kind of job has on-site childcare?
We are giving “Bored to death” some time to grow. We watched it last night after “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” An interesting hour of television…The shows dealt with the following: mental illness, divorce, cancer, abuse of marijuana, meth, alcohol, kidnapping. Just another hour of fun on TV.