Editor Picks
Here are our editor picks for the next seven days.
Thu, Feb 09 2012 View all »
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Today @ Doc Films
Skip the 2009 Washington & Travolta rendition of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three — another in Hollywood's eternal conga...
Today @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
"One of the greatest romances in cinematic history" is a grand claim, but there's a reason that Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid...
Margaret Jenkins Dance Company
Today @ Dance Center of Columbia College
Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago proudly welcomes the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company for their presentation of Light Moves, a collaboration...
Fri, Feb 10 2012 View all »
Tomorrow @ UP Comedy Club
With the "geek" and "cool" cultural divides narrowing as never before, few performers work the intersection like Brian Posehn. Hipster bona...
Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012
Tomorrow @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
Whether you enjoy your cinema in bite-sized pieces, or want to be a know-it-all at the annual Oscar party, this theatrical...
Tomorrow @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Bertrand Bonello's languid portrait of a turn-of-the-century Parisian brothel made several critics' Best of 2011 lists, but it's only now finding...
Luminous Field at Millennium Park
Tomorrow @ Millennium Park
If you've ever witnessed children spontaneously dancing in front of Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate (aka The Bean) then you probably understand...
Tomorrow @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Just what did the tobacco industry know about the evils of nicotine, and when did it know it? That's the subject...
Tomorrow @ The Empty Bottle
With the road regimen of Black Flag and the conceptual mania of Sufjan Stevens, Netherfriends ringleader Shawn Rosenblatt tasked himself an...
Sat, Feb 11 2012 View all »
Saturday 2/11 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Accompanying the Chicago Cultural Center's exhibition Write Now: Artists & Letterforms is Fluxus Day, a full schedule of various art activities...
Saturday 2/11 @ MCA Chicago
In the time since Martin Creed landed the Turner Prize in 2001 with Work No. 227, the lights going on and...
Michelle L'amour's Big Sexy Show
Saturday 2/11 @ Music Box Theatre
Those not ensconced in the subculture might not realize what a burlesque powerhouse Chicago has in Michelle L'amour. From her tireless...
Sun, Feb 12 2012 View all »
Erotic Fiction Contest and Benefit for Chicago Women's Health Center
Sunday 2/12 @ The Whistler
Pen up, salacious scribes. The Whistler's annual erotic-fiction contest invites you to get your dirty literary jollies and assist a worthy...
Mon, Feb 13 2012 View all »
Monday 2/13 @ The Empty Bottle
With their previous LP, Mirror Mirror (2010), local noise-poppers made good Unicycle Loves You jumped from serviceable, if somewhat boilerplate, indie...
Tue, Feb 14 2012 View all »
Tuesday 2/14 @ Northeastern Illinois University Fine Arts Center Gallery
The apartment gallery phenomena in Chicago is a crucial component of the city's visual-art fabric, where aspiring artists, curators, directors, and...
Tuesday 2/14 @ Schubas
To label a particular indie-rock act "Velvet Underground-influenced" is usually a pretty facile move; but there's no getting around it with...
Tuesday 2/14 @ Logan Square Auditorium
Valentine's Day: scourge to the single, burden to the coupled, notch in the bedpost of unseemly consumerism. There are darned good...
Wed, Feb 15 2012 View all »
Wednesday 2/15 @ Smart Museum of Art
By now, most of us are probably familiar with the idea and term Relational Aesthetics. A theory formed by Nicolas Bourriaud...
