Editor Picks
Here are our editor picks for the next seven days.
Sat, May 26 2012 View all »
Sun, May 27 2012 View all »
Tomorrow @ Lakeshore Dr at Columbus or Jackson
As you enter downtown from the south side, Lake Shore Drive's skyline view is truly breathtaking. The skyscrapers swell with civic...
Tomorrow @ The Empty Bottle
Kitsuné means "fox" in Japanese, but it's also the name of the influential, Paris-based electronic music and fashion label (dropping releases...
Mon, May 28 2012 View all »
Monday 5/28 @ Millennium Park
Forget graduation parties and Memorial Day weekend cookouts; for us, the signpost that summer has arrived is the annual Downtown Sound...
Monday 5/28 @ Lincoln Hall
The last time we saw Apparat live was at the consistently fantastic Finest Lunch With The Germans party at SXSW: lots...
Monday 5/28 @ The Burlington
Far be it from us to try and make amendments to the iconic history of late 1970s Lower East Side punk...
Tue, May 29 2012 View all »
Tuesday 5/29 @ Lincoln Hall
Swedish electronic duo I Break Horses bear a striking (fatal, to some) similarity to former tourmates M83. The slow-drift Hearts (Bella...
Thu, May 31 2012 View all »
Chicago Underground Film Festival
Thursday 5/31 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
The summer film season is upon us — and, as always, so are the attendant sequels, reboots, and mega-budget froth. Yes,...
Thursday 5/31 @ Lincoln Lodge
Chelsea Peretti isn't exactly a household name, but she commands high respect in comedy circles. Her credits include some of the...
Thursday 5/31 @ Chicago Improv
"I didn't know that horse was diabetic!" exclaimed Kenny — the character played by funnyman Harland Williams in the 1998 stoner...
Thursday 5/31 @ Gorilla Tango Theatre
Christian Cagigal's performances can nominally be defined as magic, but the combination of mentalism, sleight of hand, illusion, and — the...
Fri, Jun 01 2012 View all »
Friday 6/ 1 @ Do Division Fest
The first major music street festival of the summer also happens to be one of the best. The emphasis here is...
Friday 6/ 1 @ Various Chicago theaters
Wes Anderson was teetering on the brink of self-parody when the stop-motion animated Fantastic Mr. Fox breathed fresh air into the...
Master of the Flying Guillotine and The Fists of the White Lotus
Friday 6/ 1 @ Portage Theater
The Chicago Cinema Society made an auspicious programming debut last year by pairing Alex de la Iglesia's violent carnivalesque The Last...
Friday 6/ 1 @ Soccer Club Club
The amorphous, goopily factile forms in Lisa Alvarado's paintings suggest movement, light, and perhaps most effectively, a sense of decomposition and...
Friday 6/ 1 @ The Hideout
Like Girl Talk and Danger Mouse, local production/DJ crew the Hood Internet elevate the mashup from party-trick novelty to transformational creative...
