West Town Branch library August adult events
By Jason D. Nosek Chicago History Book Club Please join on us at the West Town Branch library at 6:30pm Tuesday Aug. 6 at 1625 W. Chicago Ave. for the first meeting of our Chicago History Book Club. This group will explore the city’s history through reading and discussing books on events, themes, time periods, and personalities that have contributed to making Chicago what it is today. The book we will be discussing this meeting is Never a City So Real by Alex Kotlowitz. Film Screening – Kings of Pastry In collaboration with the award-winning documentary series POV , the West Town Branch will be screening Kings of Pastry at 6pm Thursday, Aug. 8. When Chris Hegedus and D A Pennebaker, award-winning filmmakers of The War Room , Startup.com and Don't Look Back , turn their sights on the competition for the Meilleurs Ouvriers de France, the country’s Nobel Prize for pastry, you’re in for a treat. In Kings of Pastry , 16 chefs, including Jacquy Pfeiffer, co-founder of Chicago’s F