Cookin'

Cabot House JCR

Tonight and Tomorrow

Tonight, Cookin', Cabot House's recently renovated nightelub, will sponsor a double-feature, showing the Indiana Jones classic Raiders of the Lost Ark and the John Belushi/Dan Ackroyd hit, The Blues Brothers. If you missed the TV version of Raiders last Sunday night, you can catch it at the Cabot House JCR tonight for $2. Cover is $1 for members.

Tommorrow night Cookin' presents a dance concert with Dead Weight Loss. A student band, Dead Weight Loss plays cover hits from REM, the Police and David Bowie. Cover charge is $2 for non-members, $1 for members.

On Thin Ice

The Loeb Experimental Theater

Tonight and Tomorrow, 7:30 and 9:30

This weekend Harvard's oldest comedy troupe. On Thin Ice, presents an improv show in the Loeb Experimental theater tonight and tomorrow night. On Thin Ice has been at Harvard for six years, and models its performances after those of Chicago's Second City, where John Belushi got his start.

Tonight's show will include skits based on ideas suggested by the audience and enacted on the spot by On Thin Ice members. In the past, those in the audience have suggested topics from occupations and activities to emotions and genres that are then presented by the actors. This weekend's performances should prove no different.

God's Favorite

The Harvard Radcliffe Hillel Players

Dunster House at 8:00 and 10:00

Tonight's presentation of Neil Simon's God's Favorite should be a humorous look at life in wealthy suburbia. The comedy is a reworking of the story of Job and follows the adventures of Joe Benjamin, a wealthy Jewish resident of Long Island. God's Favorite did not receive rave reviews at the time of its publication, as critics complained that its stereotyping of suburban life was trite and unoriginal. It will be interesting to see how the Hillel players present the play.

Julie Wu

Dunster House Music Society

Dunster House Library

Tomorrow night at 5:30

Soprano Julie Wu '88 returns to Dunster House this weekend to present works by Haydn, Debussy, Brahms, Strauss and Walton. Wu, who was a Literature concentrator while a resident of Dunster, has studied voice at the Longy School of Music for several years and has performed locally with the Tanglewood Chorus. Earlier this year, Wu sang the soprano lead in Dunster's Christmas presentation of Handel's Messiah. Saturday's voice recital is free and open to the public.

Warren Sonbert

Presentation of his films

Carpenter Center

Tonight

Warren Sonbert is considered to be one of the most prominent avant-grade film directors in the United States. and will present a series of his recent works this afternoon at the Carpenter Center. Sonbert, whose works have recently been shwn at the New York Film Festival and at the Anthology Film Archive, will discuss his works after the showing.

First in the series is Honor and Obey (1988), a silent film that features brightly colored authority figures blending into scenes of extravagance and cocktail parties. The striking images are set against backgrounds of soldiers marching in formation, tigers stalking in the snow and religious processions.

Sonbert's most serious work, The Cup and the Lip (1986) focuses on the forces behind demonstrations and mass gatherings in the modern world. The film opens with a scene from a military parade in Budapest during the Chernobyl disaster and ends with Sandra Day O'Connor's visit to a San Francisco rally the week after the Supreme Court ruled on the sodomy law.

Sri Chimoy

Paine Hall

Tonight at 7:30, 10:00

Sri Chimoy will offer a concert at Paine Hall tonight to honor the public contributions of several Boston citizens. He will first play a series of seven instruments, after which he will present a speech on spiritual philosophy. Following the concert, Sri Chimoy will lift up with one hand Harvard professors Diana Eyk and James Luther Adams in honor of their spiritual contributions.