This week's Gossip Wolf column, written by Jessica Hopper and J.R. Nelson, features a nice little piece about tonight's Homeroom lecture about metal. Here's what they said...

Your Gossip-giving Wolf knows the difference between true and false metal. Trust. Imagine a tall tree with all the branches of metal represented by actual branches. We pee on that tree all the time! We know that those on the black-metal branch wear makeup and ritually burn down churches, and that the glam-metal branch also wear makeup, but burn down lingerie stores. Wait, is that right? Anyway, GOOD NEWS! On November 9 local poet and literary critic MICHAEL ROBBINS—who has seen his poesy in the New Yorker—and social-media consultant KEIDRA CHANEY are giving a lecture, HEAVY METAL 101. Topics include an "editorial analysis of what makes 'true' metal" and some "personal musings on the value of metal." The lecture is part of the nonprofit Homeroom series, which seeks to bring together Chicago's disparate artistic communities (like poets and metalheads, for instance). The free event will go down at the Hungry Brain (2319 W. Belmont) at 9 PM, with DJ sets by Chicago Underground Film Festival curator BRYAN WENDORF.

Thanks, Gossip Wolf and everyone at the Chicago Reader! Now please, for the love of god, list YMTE Live! events when we send them. I know we don't fit in under music, film, lectures, art openings, etc., but don't you see, we are all those things!

Go to the Brain tonight. Here's the Facebook invite.