mojosmom

The Chicago Humanities Festival has announced their fall program, and I am sitting here tearing my hair out trying to decide which programs to go to. First, I go through the program and highlight everything that sounds good. Then I cross off the ones that are on nights I have conflicts. After that, I see which ones overlap, or are at venues such that I can't make it from one to the next in time. That's when the agony begins. Wendy Doniger or Jan Morris? Or a program on what the fashionable traveler wore? Palladian houses or The Stranger in Opera? Lectures on food and Julia Child, or Edith Grossman on translation, or Latin Jazz, or women and the tango? (I need to be at least four people the afternoon of November 12th!) At least nothing conflicts with the closing lecture by Salman Rushdie or the closing concert of Handel's music.

Now I just have to get on the phone the absolute second tickets go on sale. Advance sale is available to members, and people buying tickets for four or more events. How could you not find at least four events to go to? And at $5 for most of them (and many free), it's the biggest bargain in town.