JULY
24 SATURDAY
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Feminists and cheapskates take note: Women & Children First’s annual storewide sale starts today. Every book in stock is 20 percent off and some are reduced as much as 50 percent. The store’s at 5233 N. Clark in Chicago and is open from 10 AM to 7 PM; the sale runs through August 1. Call 773-769-9299. i The Garfield Park Conservatory started keeping honeybees in 2001 and is now home to eight productive hives. At today’s Honey Harvest participants will learn about the care and feeding of bees from the beekeepers, help extract the honey from the hives, and taste the goods. It’s from 10 AM to 4 PM at the conservatory, 300 N. Central Park in Chicago, 773-638-1766, ext. 24. A $3 donation is requested.
25 SUNDAY
In the 80s south-suburban native Billy McCarthy played drums (under the name Billy Dior) with the hair metal band D’Molls. Later, he worked with Jimi Hendrix’s longtime engineer Eddie Kramer, hosted a radio show, and did stand-up. Now he’s applied his experience in the entertainment industry to a novel, The Devil of Shakespeare, in which a Hollywood megastar with working-class Chicago roots decides to give it all up for the contemplative life. He’ll read from the book and sign copies today at 5:30 PM at the Virgin Megastore, 540 N. Michigan in Chicago. It’s free; call 312-645-9300. At 10 PM on Friday, July 30, he’ll sign books and perform with the band Anxiety Society at 115 Bourbon Street, 3359 W. 115th in Merrionette Park. It’s also free; call 708-388-8881.
In the 1920s the case of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb-two University of Chicago grad students who kidnapped and murdered a 14-year-old acquaintance on a lark-riveted the nation. In conjunction with the Chicago Historical Society’s ongoing exhibit on the case, TimeLine Theatre Company is presenting a free concert reading of the new musical Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story. Structured as a two-character “memory play,” it focuses on the men’s complicated relationship (they were also lovers) and their reaction to the unraveling of “the perfect crime.” It’s tonight at 7 at the CHS, 1601 N. Clark in Chicago; call 312-642-4600.
