All events on Thursday November 15

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Music: Rock/Pop
Mountain Goats w/ Bowerbirds
Thursday Nov 15, 2007 (9pm) @ The Empty Bottle
Giveaway
John Darnielle has recorded so much under his Mountain Goats moniker that it's getting hard to track the shades of heartbreak. The North Carolina-based songwriter... View details »
Mountain Goats w/ Bowerbirds
Music: Rock/Pop
Jimmy Eat World
Thursday Nov 15, 2007 (7pm) @ Riviera Theatre
In the early part of the decade, Jimmy Eat World were emo's vanguard, injecting traditional punk aggression into sing-along pop with agonized, teenage-diary lyrics. 2001's... View details »
Jimmy Eat World
Film
Rear Window
Thursday Nov 15, 2007 (8pm) @ Block Cinema
With a badly broken leg and strict orders to rest at home, wheelchair-bound photojournalist L.B. Jefferies (played by a hunky, pajama-clad James Stewart) passes his... View details »
Rear Window
Performing Arts: Dance
The Wonder-Cabinet Of Dr. Wunderkammer
Thursday Nov 15, 2007 @ Hamlin Park Fieldhouse Theater More times »
The most archly purple promo in years sets this show up as a curio cabinet of rare and exotic dances "of divers Artefacts, movements of... View details »
The Wonder-Cabinet Of Dr. Wunderkammer
Performing Arts: Dance
Lucky Plush Productions: Cinderbox 18
Thursday Nov 15, 2007 @ Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
Julia Rhoads — Chicago's eight-year queen of clean, fluid choreography with surreal and comic touches — dives headfirst into uncharted waters with a new work... View details »
Lucky Plush Productions:  Cinderbox 18

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Art
Casting a Shadow
Thursday Nov 15, 2007 (10am–8pm) @ Block Museum, Northwestern University More times »
Free
Alfred Hitchcock's legendary attention to detail in his mise en scene — literally, "setting the scene" within the cinematic frame through production design, lighting, blocking,... View details »
Casting a Shadow
Art
Sympathy for the Devil
Thursday Nov 15, 2007 (10am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
Taking its title from the 1968 Rolling Stones song, Sympathy for the Devil is grouped into geographical vignettes: New York, West Coast/Los Angeles, Midwest, United... View details »
Sympathy for the Devil
Art
Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery
Thursday Nov 15, 2007 (10am–8pm) @ Smart Museum of Art More times »
Free
This selection of master works from Yale's prestigious collection is a thrill ride through the annals of art history, from a medieval rendering of a... View details »
Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery
Film: Documentary
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
Thursday Nov 15, 2007 @ Music Box Theatre More times »
Twenty-one years after the release of the last Clash album, director Julien Temple's Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten examines the life and times of... View details »
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
Art
William Pope.L
Thursday Nov 15, 2007 (10:30am–5pm) @ The Art Institute of Chicago More times »
William Pope.L, the self-proclaimed "friendliest black artist in America," first received recognition for belly-crawling along city streets, often dressed in costume, to draw attention to... View details »
William Pope.L
Art
Satoru Aoyama: Ancient Pixels
Thursday Nov 15, 2007 (8am–7pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center More times »
Free
Tokyo-born, Chicago-educated Satoru Aoyama would be a photorealist painter, if his preferred medium weren't a needle and thread. His striking pictorial embroideries appear to be... View details »
Satoru Aoyama: Ancient Pixels
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Crucible
Thursday Nov 15, 2007 (7pm) @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre More times »
Steppenwolf director Anna D. Shapiro has elicited profoundly felt performances from her ensemble that bring fresh life to well-worn roles. Disregarding race, her inventive casting... View details »
The Crucible
Film
Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination
Thursday Nov 15, 2007 (9:30am–4pm) @ Museum of Science and Industry More times »
Though it's presented as a chance to learn about the possibilities of real science, the true draw of this exhibit is the assortment of props... View details »
Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination
Art
Grace Chicago Curatorial Project: Making Peace & Ann Toebbe: Stained Glass
Thursday Nov 15, 2007 (6–9pm) @ ThreeWalls More times »
Free
You might expect a group of artists and art administrators to meet in art school, or perhaps while commiserating over a substandard merlot at an... View details »
Grace Chicago Curatorial Project: Making Peace & Ann Toebbe: Stained Glass
Art
Guns & Ammo
Thursday Nov 15, 2007 (10am–5pm) @ Gallery 40000 More times »
Free
Gallery director Britton Bertran based Guns & Ammo on Newton's third law of motion: for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Some... View details »
Guns & Ammo
More Flavor: Discussion
I Am Eyebeam
Thursday Nov 15, 2007 (6pm) @ Gallery 400 More times »
Free
Tonight, artist Melanie Schiff and Gallery 400 director Lorelei Stewart come together to talk about their co-curated exhibition I Am Eyebeam, which includes work from... View details »
I Am Eyebeam
Performing Arts
Mr. Fluxus
Thursday Nov 15, 2007 (7:30pm) @ The Neo-Futurarium More times »
In an ironic twist, many of the 20th-century "anti-art" movements, like Dada and Surrealism, have arguably become enshrined in the canon they worked so hard... View details »
Mr. Fluxus
Art
Audrey Niffenegger
Thursday Nov 15, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Printworks Gallery More times »
Free
British fashion-magazine editor and style icon Isabella Blow was a true original — a modern-day Marchesa Casati who dared to wear the world's most outrageous... View details »
Audrey Niffenegger
Art
Cody Hudson
Thursday Nov 15, 2007 (4am) @ Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
Graphic-designer-turned-painter Cody Hudson makes a splash with the most recent in a series of MCA 12 x 12 solo shows, There Ain't No Bottomless Pit... View details »
Cody Hudson
Art
Christopher Patch
Thursday Nov 15, 2007 (noon–5pm) @ Monique Meloche More times »
Free
American painterly realism makes a comeback in these paintings by Maine native Christopher Patch. Matinicus began when Patch set out onboard a small plane with... View details »
Christopher Patch
Film
The Telephone Book
Thursday Nov 15, 2007 @ Music Box Theatre More times »
The rough gem of the Music Box's Midnight Movies series, The Telephone Book is everything you could ask for in cult exploitation: an X-rated, not-so-seamless... View details »
The Telephone Book
Art
Mapping the Self
Thursday Nov 15, 2007 (4am) @ Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
As part of the citywide Festival of Maps, kicking off at the Field Museum on November 2, curator Tricia Van Eck has organized an exhibition... View details »
Mapping the Self
Art
Meanwhile in Baghdad…
Thursday Nov 15, 2007 (10am–5pm) @ The Renaissance Society More times »
Free
How the United States' ill-fated war in Iraq resonates in contemporary art — both in literal depictions and creeping undercurrents — will no doubt be... View details »
Meanwhile in Baghdad…
Film
19th Annual Polish Film Festival
Thursday Nov 15, 2007 @ Various locations More times »
The 19th Annual Polish Film Festival promises Chicago — second only to Warsaw in our number of Polish-speaking residents — a two-week crash course in... View details »
19th Annual Polish Film Festival
Art
Rendered in Black and Rendered
Thursday Nov 15, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery More times »
Free
Showing work from three series — Rendered in Black, Events Are, and Reading — New York-based artist Adam Pendleton displays an array of aesthetically tight... View details »
Rendered in Black and Rendered
Performing Arts: Theatre
Chalk
Thursday Nov 15, 2007 (7:30–9:30pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center's Studio Theater More times »
The British faux documentary Death of a President raised eyebrows last year by imagining the assassination of the sitting American chief executive. The Right Brain... View details »
Chalk