If You're Hot, What About the Polar Bears? Find Out Latest On Global Warming

Plus: untangling relationships, make friends with your iPad or Nook and looking ahead to Rosh Hashanah next week. Plan your week with "The Week Ahead."

Posted Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 5:13 pm CT|Updated Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 5:14 pm CT

Here's your "The Week Ahead" report for Monday, Aug. 26 through Monday, Sept. 2.

You bought a Nook but you're not sure what to do with it? Barnes & Noble hosts a class to teach you. 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Ditto if you have a new iPad. Skokie Library hosts "Hello, iPad" Monday evening.
If you're perspiring, what about the polar bears? Learn the latest on global warming when Oakton Community College screens Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" with an update. Tuesday evening.
Relationships--they're complicated. See how Shakespeare untangled one in a live performance of "The Taming of the Shrew" Aug. 31 and Sept. 1.
Friday marks the start of the Labor Day weekend. Woo hoo!
Looking ahead: When you bounce back from Labor Day next Tuesday, Sept. 3, be aware that Rosh Hashanah starts super-early this year: on the evening of Weds. Sept. 4. Calendars list the holiday as Sept. 5, but all Jewish holidays start the evening before at sunset.
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