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Friday, December 25, 2009
Saint Sebastian Players Present Tribute (Play)
The Saint Sebastian Players present Tribute by Bernard Slade February 15-March 9. Call 773.404.7922 or visit www.ticketweb.com.
Well-Fit Time to Trim Special (Health)
Location: 1700 W. Hubbard St.
Well Fit, Chicago’s most comprehensive triathlon, training and fitness facility, would like to help you start the New Year right with their 2010 Time to Trim fitness promotion. Get started for less than $200 with these great optionsMONTHLY MEMBERSHIP - Join Well-Fit Training Center for a reduced rate of $45 a month. CUSTOMIZED FITNESS SOLUTION - For just $189, Well-Fit members can receive a Customized Fitness Solution. This includes strength, flexibility & body composition analysis, finding your unique cardio training zones and a 1 month training plan. PERSONAL TRAINING WITH MONTHLY MEMBERSHIP - Become a Well-Fit Training Center member for $45 a month and get 4 personal training sessions (regularly $85.00 per session) and your first month of membership for only $189! PERSONAL TRAINING TRIAL - Not sure if you are ready to join? Get 5 personal training sessions for $189 and try the training center with no commitment. That's a savings of over $230!Call (312) 846-1222
Stellar Scholars Awards: In Search Of Chicago's Best Young Storytellers (Education)
Location: All Chicago Area High Schools
The Community Calendars of 316 radio stations across America joined WLS in getting out word of the inaugural Stellar Scholars Creative Writing competition. This year, high school students are challenged to write a cover story from source photography for Cum Laude, The Scholarly Evening Post. Publication pays $100 and eligibility to win the Summa Cum Laude $1,000 Grand Prize. For rules and source photos, GOOGLE/YAHOO:stellar scholars aurora awards
SIDEWALKS: PHOTOGRAPHS BY CHARLES OSGOOD & STORIES BY RICK KOGAN (Exhibits)
Location: Chicago Tourism Center Gallery, 72 E. Randolph St.
Chicago comes alive in words and pictures at a new exhibition featuring photographs by Charles Osgood and stories by Rick Kogan from their Chicago Tribune Sidewalks column. More than 60 of the most memorable images and stories included in two books, the new Sidewalks II: Reflections on Chicago and Sidewalks: Portraits of Chicago, go on display at the Chicago Tourism Center Gallery, 72 E. Randolph Street, from November 19 to February 28, 2010. The public is invited to an opening reception for the Sidewalks: Photographs by Charles Osgood & Stories by Rick Kogan exhibition, on November 19 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. with Osgood, longtime Chicago Tribune photographer, and Kogan, Chicago Tribune Senior Writer and Columnist and WGN radio host.
Johnathan Breitung Salon & Luxury Spa Exclusive Holiday Spa Packages (Holiday)
Location: 3226 N. Lincoln Avenue, Chicago, IL 60657
Let Johnathan Breitung Salon & Luxury Spa take the stress out of your holiday gift list. Provide your friends and family luxury pampering this holiday with exclusive packages for both men and women. Let them indulge with a one hour Swedish or Thai Ball massage, refresh with deep pore cleansing facial and rejuvenate winter nails with a spa oil pedicure. Johnathan Breitung Salon & Luxury Spa will have you and your favorite’s holidays full of blissful relaxation, and bring them into the New Year renewed. Packages include: Deep Pore Cleansing Facial + 1 hour Swedish Massage + Spa Oil Pedicure Special Package price: $200Gentleman’s Facial + 1 hour Thai Ball Deep Massage + Spa Oil Pedicure Special Package price: $228
Little Builders Exhibition arrives at Kohl Children’s Museum (Museum)
Time: 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM
Location: Kohl Children's Museum
“Construction” starts at Kohl Children’s Museum of Greater Chicago on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009 with the arrival of the Little Builders exhibition. Aimed at teaching children the ropes of a builder’s world, the new science exhibition uses interactive activities and construction scenarios to teach children about building. Little Builders encourages children to use the tools offered in their own unique way, giving them the chance to grow creatively and allowing them to personalize their experience. As part of the Little Builders exhibition, children are given the opportunity to dress in a hard hat and orange safety vest before entering the exhibit. For added fun and a more genuine role-playing experience, children are also given a push cart and orange cones to use during their time in the exhibit. The exhibition closes Sunday, Jan. 10, 2010.
Illinois Fathers Support Group (Lecture/Talk)
Time: 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Location: Hinsdale Public Library, 20 E Maple St, Hinsdale, IL
11/12/20097 pm to 8:30 pmIllinois Fathers Support Group, Hinsdale, ILLocation: Hinsdale Public Library, 20 E Maple St, Hinsdale, ILMike Doherty, Chairman of Children's Rights Counsel-IL, guest speaker, will discuss their research regarding updating Illinois family law in order to help over 35,000 children each year who will experience the separation or divorce of their parents. The goals are to increase greater father involvement in their children's schooling, fewer animosity-generating court battles, greater communication and incentives for parents to cooperate with each other, improved post-divorce adjustments, less elevation of one parent into a monopolizing role and clearer signals to all parents that children in Illinois need a meaningful relationship with both parents. Contact # 630-408-5200. Register @ IllinoisFathers.org for updates in legislation regarding parenting agreements and visitation.
“It’s a Wonderful Life: Live at the Biograph!” (Entertainment)
Time: 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Location: Victory Gardens Theater at the Biograph
American Blues Theater, Chicago’s second oldest Equity ensemble company, kicks off its 2009-2010 season with “It’s a Wonderful Life: Live at the Biograph!” Marty Higginbotham directs a new adaptation of the classic story based on the Frank Capra masterpiece and performed as a period radio piece complete with commercial breaks.
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