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Activities Bulletin
November 2007

Note: Contact name, phone and email addresses have been removed from these listings. Please see the November ChiMe for this information.


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1/Thursday

ChiMe Editorial Deadline. Last day for editorial submissions to the December ChiMe.

Downtown Lunch 1 PM. We meet at Maxim's at the corner of Madison and Clark. Make reservations before 11 AM with the event coordinator.

Location Change !!
Sure Happy It's Thursday: South Suburban 6:30 PM. Our former restaurant has closed. For event location, contact the event coordinator.

2/Friday

First Fridays/Mensa Christians 7 PM. Join fellow believers for dinner and friendly (John 13:35), informal and not generally theological conversation. Nondenominational, but decidedly christological. We meet at The Grill, a restaurant on the ground floor of the North Shore Doubletree at 9599 Skokie Boulevard (the corner of Skokie Blvd. and Golf Rd., kitty-corner from Old Orchard shopping center). Reservations are not required but are encouraged, as the restaurant can get crowded.

6/Tuesday

Downtown Lunch 1 PM. We meet at Maxim's at the corner of Madison and Clark. Make reservations before 11 AM with the event coordinator.

8/Thursday

Northwest Suburban Dinner On Thursday (DOT) 7 PM. Grab a friend or two and head on over to Famous Dave's BBQ, 1101 E Dundee in Palatine; 847-202-2213. We'll have a big table reserved. November Mensa birthdays will be celebrated, informal book exchange (bring books/take books). New members and previously inactives warmly welcome. RSVP always appreciated! Come for the party!.

9/Friday

Futures and Fantasies will conduct a book discussion at WindyCon all this weekend at the Wyndham O'Hare hotel, 6810 N. Mannheim in Rosemont. WindyCon is the largest Chicago area Science Fiction convention. A Sunday afternoon discussion of Blood Trail by Tanya Huff (who is the Convention author Guest of Honor) has been requested, but the time, exact date and title of the book to be discussed are TBA. You MUST be registered at the Convention to attend. Please call the event coordinator for details, or check the WindyCon website at www.windycon.org.

Women In Mensa (WIM) 7 PM. Our casual chats are mostly related to careers, stock portfolios, travel, real estate investments, and women's health care issues. We meet in the lobby of the Radisson Hotel dining room, at 4500 Touhy, Lincolnwood. Food from the coffee house menu is available in the dining room, but the conversation and networking take precedence over the food. Reservations are a must or you may find that we have gone somewhere else for the night.

Rockford Mensa Dinner 7 PM. Join Rockford-area Mensans at Capri Italian Restaurant, 313 E. State St. in downtown Rockford; 965-6341. Contact the event coordinator for more information.

Poetry Discussion at 8 PM. Contact the event coordinator for location information and a copy of the poems and directions.

10/Saturday

Special Time !!
West Suburban Games and Conversation 12 PM noon. Help us celebrate our 75th game party in Winfield. Bring your old games for a game exchange! For this one time, special event, a pot luck dish or a munchie donation (crackers, cookies, etc.) would be appreciated. RSVPs would be especially appreciated for this 75th party. Call event hosts to RSVP and for directions. Non-smoking event, one friendly cat. Look for the article elsewhere in ChiMe.

Saturday Night Firsts (SNF) Evening. We generally choose a location in the northwest suburbs, but you never know! To make sure you're in-the-know, join the SNF e-mail list (see details elsewhere in ChiMe). Contact the event coordinators for more information.

Gay and Lesbian SIG 7 PM. For more information contact the event coordinator.

Second Saturday Coffeehouse 8 PM. to hear folksinger Kat Eggleston perform music from her latest CD, The Only Word. This follows an open-mike opportunity (7:30 sign-up, share your musical and spoken word talents - all acoustic). $5 cover. This takes place at The Ethical Humanist Society, 7574 N. Lincoln Ave. in Skokie. Phone the event coordinator for more information.

11/Sunday

Futures and Fantasies will conduct a book discussion at WindyCon all this weekend at the Wyndham O'Hare hotel. See the listing for Friday, November 9.

Way Out West (WOW) Second Sunday Brunch 10:30 AM. Join us at Delaney's Restaurant off I-39, second exit south of I-80, Oglesby. For further information, contact the event coordinator.

Potluck Dinner 5:30 PM in Wood Dale. Please join the e-mail list at www.lists.us.mensa.org/mailman/listinfo/chi-potluck. Contact event hostess for details and to coordinate what you'll bring.

15/Thursday

Downtown Lunch 1 PM. We meet at Maxim's at the corner of Madison and Clark. Make reservations before 11 AM with the event coordinator.

17/Saturday

Conservatives Lunch NOON. Join other members of the Mensan cell of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy for lunch and secret planning at QQ Chinese Buffet, 579 Roosevelt Rd. in Glen Ellyn. QQ Buffet is in the Market Plaza Shopping Center between Park Blvd. and Main St. $8.00 for all you can eat (includes beverage and dessert). Ask for the Conservatives Lunch group. RSVPs appreciated. Open to non-Mensans; bring a conservative friend. For more info, contact the event coordinator.

The Art Lovers' Booze and Marching Society (ALBAMS) 12:30 PM will lunch at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cafe. Look for the small collection of wee critters on our table in the serve-yourself section of the room. The museum is celebrating its 40th anniversary and the main exhibit is aptly named "Collection Highlights." And, as part of the celebration, admission will be free on this day. And by the time the Art Lovers come to see this exhibit the weather will possibly be cold and a) snowy, b) rainy, or c) blustery. Or even all of the above. Well, when it's winter-time in Chicago, that's what happens.

South Bend Dinner 6 PM. Contact the event coordinator for location information.

Chinese on Saturdays 6 PM. at Lao Sze Chuan House, 1331 Ogden Ave. in Downers Grove. The restaurant is on the south side of the street, a few blocks west of Main St. Come for good food, good conversation and somewhat warped humor. Each month we have a reading of a Darwin Award, News of the Weird, or something similar. Please RSVP by noon so the event coordinator can notify the restaurant.

MST3K (Mystery Science Theater 3000) Night 7 PM. Please join us for Mystery Science Theater. We will enjoy cartoons, B-movies and funny experiments in St. Charles. Contact the event coordinator for directions and more information.

Western Movies evening. Get together for a Saturday film -- it won't be a western, but it will take place in the western suburbs (maybe Yorktown, or Marcus Addison, or the Glen). We'll see a late afternoon film, and those who wish can gather for dinner at a nearby restaurant. The difference between Western Movies and SNF is that we will choose a well-reviewed current film, but not necessarily on opening weekend. Contact the event coordinator for film, time and location.

North Suburban Games 7 PM Join us for the beginning of another cool season of gaming by the fire up here in Libertyville. Contact the event hosts for more information.

18/Sunday

NIBBLERS Brunch 12:00 Noon We're trekking to Cliffbreakers Resort (700 W. Riverside Blvd. Rockford, IL 61103; 815-282-3033; www.cliffbreakers.com). Brunch is $15.95 for adults and $7.95 for children ages 4 through 10. The meal will be followed by a hike through Rock Cut State Park, just a few miles north of the resort; attendance at one event does not mandate attendance at the other. Details of the hike were still being worked out at press time. Reservations are due by Thurs., Nov. 15th; contact theevent coordinator. See the notice elsewhere in ChiMe for brunch details; for Rock Cut hike updates, join our e-mail list: www.lists.us.mensa.org/mailman/listinfo/chi-nibblers.

19/Monday

BABL (Beverly Area Book Lovers) 7 PM. We will meet at Walker Library, 11071 S. Hoyne. Informal conversation, any topic, foreign languages frequently mentioned, a literal library of books at hand. Advance reservations optional but appreciated, due to possible last-minute changes. For more information, contact the event coordinator.

20/Tuesday

Downtown Lunch 1 PM. We meet at Maxim's at the corner of Madison and Clark. Make reservations before 11 AM with the event coordinator.

Near West-Southwest (WSW) Mensans 6:30 PM. This month, we enjoy Chinese food at Luo's Peking House, 113 N. Marion Street in Oak Park. Reservations are not required, but please contact the event coordinator so he can give the restaurant fair warning.

27/Tuesday

Sterling/Rock Falls/Dixon Dinner 6 PM. Contact the event coordinator for location information.

29/Thursday

Downtown Lunch 1 PM. We meet at Maxim's at the corner of Madison and Clark. Make reservations before 11 AM with the event coordinator.

30/Friday

ChiMe Activity Bulletin and Advertising Deadline. Last day for these submissions to the January 2008 ChiMe.
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