You’ve Got a Busy Weekend

Can you smell it? Spring is in the air...although you may need to trade in your snow boots for galoshes this weekend. Don't let that deter you though from having fun, there is still plenty to do. Scooty & JoJo are kicking off their new show at The Spot in Uptown and Dixie Longate is hitting the stage in Aurora selling her Tupperware like no one can. Get out there and have some fun!

THURSDAY, MARCH 5

Stop by Women & Children First Books - 5233 N Clark - for a release party for the new novel Ruins by Achy Obejas, stop by and enjoy some cake and champagne at 7:30PM

NewTown Writers will meet at Gerber/Hart Library for their Writers Workshop at 7:30

Chicago The Musical is playing at the Oriental Theater through Sunday, check out my review, tickets are available from $30 to $150 and you can purchase online.

Dixie's Tupperware Party kicks off at the Copley Theater in Aurora tonight and runs through the 15th. Believe me you, this is not your Mama's Tupperware Party! I drove out to Des Moines last year to see Dixie and it was well worth the drive. Tickets are $32. If you don't feel like driving, why not join the Great Lake Bears for a Road Trip on the 14th.

RAIN: A Tribute to the Beatles is rocking the Auditorium theater through Sunday. If you're like me and just a little bit too young to have seen the Fab 4 in person, nows your chance to experience what one of their concerts were like. Ticket prices are $35-75 and can be purchased online.

FRIDAY, MARCH 6

Stop by the Chicago Cultural Center for 'Lunchbreak: Music Without Borders' at 12:15, enjoy a Mediterranean guitar duet with your lunch.

Women & Children First Books in Andersonville will be hosting Emily Mendenhall, editor of Global Health Narratives at 7:30 for a discussion on health issues involving the world.

The Chicago International Movies and Music Festival, joining movies and music will be featured in more than a dozen films throughout the weekend. Check the site for full details.

It's First Fridays at the Museum of Contemporary Art from 6-10PM when they kick off Constellation. Enjoy the museum, appetizers and a cash bar for $15 ($7 if you're a member.) Order tickets online

It's First Friday's Equality Illinois networking event at Sidetrack from 6-8PM. $10 donation will get you two drink tickets and an raffle ticket entry.

XANADU is rocking the house at the Drury Lane Theater at Water Tower, every week I hear more of my friends are enjoying it as much as I did. Enjoy a rocking disco time, purchase tickets online!

Stop by the Center on Halsted for the opening reception of Bret Grafton's 'Chicago Gay Games: Portraits and Prose' at 6:30 Celebrate, $5 donation with a cash bar.

WOOF! The Flesh Hungry Dog Show including 'Loto Ball Show' 'The Balkaners' and 'Yesterday's Lies' will take the stage at Jackhammer with host Gary Airedale at 9PM. $8 tickets can be purchased online

Get a dose of Spring before everyone else with 'Evening in Bloom' an evening of food, cocktails and a first chance viewing of the Chicago Flower & Garden show before the rest of Chicago does starting at 6:30PM, tickets are $100

SATURDAY, MARCH 7

Celebrate Dr. Seuss' birthday as Jumpstart Americorps kicks off their book drive starting at 10AM and events scheduled throughout the day at Women & Children First in Andersonville.

The Chicago International Movies and Music Festival, joining movies and music will be featured in more than a dozen films throughout the weekend. Check the site for full details.

Don't miss the 10th Annual Chili Cook Off at Sidetrack this afternoon from 2-6, your $10 donation lets you sample and vote for the winner and support the Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce.

You have two chances to catch Dixie's Tupperware Party at the Copley Theater in Aurora today, first at 3PM and then again at 8PM, don't miss it, you'll laugh your ass off!

Director LeAnn Erickson will make an appearance at a screening of her film 'Folk Songs' during Chicago Filmmakers 'Descent: Three Stories of Family' program, 8PM. $8/$4

You've been following along for weeks watching bartenders across the city take it off for charity, well tonight is the night! Chicago Takes Off hits the Park West tonight for two shows at 7:30PM and 10PM, tickets start at $50 and benefit TPAN and is hosted by the most fabulous Miss Coco Peru (If only Varla Jean were here THIS week).

Sapphic Adventures (previously Chicago Lesbian Brunch Group) will be meeting at Lincoln Square Lanes for an afternoon of bowling from 4-7PM

SUNDAY, MARCH 8

Daylight Savings Time starts this morning at 2AM, turn your clocks ahead one hour and enjoy all that extra sunshine at the end of the day!

Enjoy the first ever 'Diva Brunch' at The Spot - 4437 N Broadway. Scooty & JoJo (of Carpenter's Halloween fame) turn The Spot into a 'gilded glamor den' enjoy a delicious brunch package for $35 that includes unlimited mimosas or bellinis as well as music, smart ass remarks and who knows what else? Drag Artist Keith Redmond will be there along with the cast of "KamaSutra the Musical"

Meg Woltizer will be at Women & Children First Books at 4:30 to celebrate the release of her latest novel The Ten-Year Nap.

The Chicago International Movies and Music Festival, joining movies and music will be featured in more than a dozen films throughout the weekend. Check the site for full details.

Dixie's Tupperware Party is definitely not your Mama's Tupperware Party, Dixie is hosting her party today at 3PM at the Copley Theater in Aurora - you'd best get over there and pay her a visit.

It's Madness in the White City at the Chicago History Museum. Part of 'Project Sunday' the film takes a close look at the life of H.H. Holmes famed serial killer who used the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition as a cover to his dastardly deeds. Check out the trailer Free with Museum admission of $12

'Stand Up' for Equality and support PFLAG with Vickie Shaw, Mike Neubecker and Hostess Miss Foozie at The Chicago Improv @ Woodfield Mall at Noon, tickets are $50.

COMING SOON

MONDAY - Conversation: The Magic of Perception

MARCH 14 - Great Lakes Bears - Road Trip to see Dixie's Tupperware Party

MAY 9 - 3rd Annual Sci-Fi Spectacular