FILM
Chicago Restored!
Who better to tell ya about all that jazz then the people who were actually living it? At the end of the roaring ’20s, a little film was made that incorporated all the music, gin, and debauchery of the times. While the movie originally met with fear, the premise inspired the hit Bob Fosse musical and 2002 Academy Award-winning movie Chicago. Now the original 1927 version has been found and restored, and it’s playing tonight at the Heights as part of a special screening with Harvey Gustafson on the organ. —Kate McDonald
7:30 p.m., Heights Theatre, 391 Central Ave. N.E., Columbia Heights; 763-788-9079; $8.
THEATER & PERFORMANCE
Happy Hours and Olives
There are many reasons behind my desire to see Martini & Olive’s Holiday Happy Hour show at Illusion Theatre: the fact that they describe themselves as deliberately appalling; the fact that they are channeling the ’70s in their wardrobe and badattitude; and the fact that I have a weakness for all things involving happy hours and olives. Their two-man play is a celebration of all things festive — as long as festive involves crudeness, fruit basket head ornaments, and debauchery. —Kate McDonald
7:30 p.m., Illusion Theater, 528 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis; 612-339-4944; $25.
MUSIC
Primitive Appeal
Minnesota in December might not resemble Winter in Kingston, Jamaica, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have our reggae and play it too. And who better to play it than The New Primitives, who have won the Minnesota Music Awards for best reggae in Minnesota for the last four years? The eight member band doesn’t stop at reggae either; they incorporate R&B, ska, and calypso into their energetic world dance music performance. —Kate McDonald
9 p.m., The Cabooze, 917 Cedar Ave. S., Minneapolis; $5.
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