Friday 7/2 – Thursday 7/8
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Part soft-core porn provider and part online community for punk, goth, and emo kids, the three-year-old SuicideGirls.com is one of the few postbubble Internet success stories, claiming 500,000 visitors a week. Earlier this year a half dozen of the site’s pierced and tattooed models hit the road with the Suicide Girls Live Burlesque Show (which came through Chicago in February) and now they’ve spun off into even older media with SuicideGirls, a coffee-table book of color pinup photos and diary entries by the girls. Tonight at 7 cofounder Missy Suicide and eight of her cohorts will be signing copies at Quimby’s, 1854 W. North. It’s free; call 773-342-0910. Later, at the Double Door, they’ll wriggle out of their clothes in bump ‘n’ grind vignettes inspired by Reservoir Dogs, The Graduate, and Peaches’s “Fuck the Pain Away.” The newest version of the burlesque show starts at 10 at 1572 N. Milwaukee; Lying in States and Bloom open. Tickets are $13 in advance and $15 at the door; call 773-489-3160. There’s also a show at 9 on Thursday, July 1, with Sluts of Trust in the opening slot.
3 SATURDAY Every month the Chopping Block cooking school offers a free wine tasting, and for July the varietal of choice is beer. “Just as wine is a natural pairing with food, beer can do the same thing, but be lighter,” says instructor John Fuente. Today he’ll introduce students to a citrusy white ale from Canada’s Unibroue brewery. It’s at 5 at the Chopping Block, 4747 N. Lincoln; call 773-472-6700.
7 WEDNESDAY Today, as part of the Field Museum exhibit “Splendors of China’s Forbidden City: The Glorious Reign of Emperor Qianlong,” Princeton University historian Susan Naquin will talk about the religious habits of the imperial family in the years of Qianlong’s reign and put some of the religious objects in the exhibit into historical context. Religious Traditions of the Forbidden City starts at 6 PM at the Field Museum, 1400 S. Lake Shore Dr. Admission is $16, $14 for students and educators. Registration is required; call 312-665-7400.
