Friday 5/28 – Thursday 6/3
It’s Indiapalooza today at the Zee TV Heritage India Festival. Besides more than 100 vendors hawking colorful clothes, jewelry, and fabric paintings, there will be a troupe demonstrating ghumar and other traditional dance styles from the northwestern Indian state of Rajasthan, plus puppetry and special kids’ activities like mehndi henna tattooing and kite making. And then there’s the food–you can count on popular items like lassis, chicken tikka, and samosas in addition to more adventurous fare. For single South Asians seeking same there’s a singles meeting that promises a “face-to-face introduction in a safe, comfortable, and informal surrounding.” The festival runs from noon to 9 today and noon to 7 tomorrow at Soldier Field, 1410 S. Lake Shore Dr. Admission is $5 each day (free for kids under 6); the singles event is $30. See www.rushiinc.com/ hifestival/chicago.htm.
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It’s ladies’ night tonight at the Girlie-Q Variety Hour, a melange of spoken word, burlesque, striptease, and drag featuring activist pom-pom girls the Lickety Split Cheerleaders, the performance group Mouthy, and former Sister Spit members Len Plass and Cooper Lee Bombardier (who now run San Francisco’s Junkyard Books, a small publisher of GLBT writers), among others. It’s from 8 to midnight at HotHouse, 31 E. Balbo (312-362-9707), and cover is $10. You must be 21 or over.
