The Sunday Social

The Social is, without doubt, the best way to while away the tail end of the weekend. This month, Brazilian jazz-fusion pioneers Azymuth are all set to play an exclusive live set, as are Dundonian orchestra-hop newcomers Voight Kampff. Sidewinder returns for DJ duties, and Tapehaed supplies the visual mix.

ZooLights Festival

Look into the night sky over Lincoln Park Zoo for a display of more than a million dazzling lights illuminating whimsical holiday displays of polar bears, penguins, lions, giraffes, elephants and other animals. New this year is a laser light show with images dancing off a cascading 15-foot-tall water screen. Also debuting are 20-foot-tall holiday characters including Frosty, Santa and Rudolph who dance in the sky. Children's activities, family crafts, cookie decorating and an animal fun-fact scavenger hunt are also scheduled. The Holiday Café serves dinners, hot drinks and seasonal treats.

Une affaire vénitienne - A Venetian affair

Choose the best time to visit Cancun

Most would outline traveling off-peak as'traveling outside rush-hours to avoid overcrowding in public way of transport.' This sounds all too easy and as we'd expect - quicker said than done. If you like to be around other tourist than I advocate any time of the year to go to Mexico. You will also gain a difference point of view on travel - particularly the extra virtue of enjoying your dream destinations without huddling with the masses of visitors during vacations. And are you aware that traveling off-peak means traveling during vacations ( not before or after ) when airfares are lower and there's less road traffic? Best Times to go For both air and vehicle travel, escape the hordes by traveling in the week, particularly from Tues. thru Thursday. An additional bonus is that airfares for travel Tues. thru Thursday are often less expensive. This site also offers the load on late-night flights ( AKA red-eye flights for obvious reasons ) : these flights will help you avoid traffic but it is only effective if you can sleep sitting up-right on a plane! Some of the cheapest Cancun travel deals of the year can be discovered in the decline.

If you happen to find nonresistable super offer during off-peak dates that fall between major holidays, do not squander time. Book instantly with your discount travel agent. You may say what is the point in going to Mexico in winter when you are going there to savor the beaches? But the truth is, there's barely such a thing as winter in the Mexico as it stays warm almost all of the year. In reality, it isn't an excellent idea to fly there in the top season ( I.e, summer months ) as this is the period when the hurricanes often come.

It also helps to sign up for online newsletters of discount air travel agents like Travelocity or Expedia. By having yourself included in these companies' contact list, you can get your hands on off-peak travel promotions quicker than people who failed to. If you are the kind who can leave at a minute's notice, you are able to save a lot from last-minute flights and accommodations.

El Grande de Coca Cola

This riotous and wacky musical comedy stars one of South Africa's all time favourite slapstick comedians, Tobie Cronje. Impresario Papa Pepe Hernandez hires a troupe of international cabaret acts to perform in Sandton Square, but they let him down. Ever resourceful, Pepe hires his own family to do the job - with chaotic consequences. A hilarious mixture of Spanish ramblings and visual humour, this is perfect festive season fare.

Full Moon

San Francisco based Michael Light trawled through 32,000 photographs taken of and on the moon during the years of the Apollo Missions to select the 100 that appear here. Some are as familiar as the footprint in the lunar dust, others have been rarely sighted before but all of them produce a sense of awe. The technical quality of the images is excellent and, considering all of the photographers were by amateurs, the artistic sensibility is exceptionally high.

Rab Noakes

A solo appearance from the infamous broadcaster and musician.