Events on Thursday, November 15
Thursday 11/15 @ 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...
Thursday 11/15 @ 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...
Thursday 11/15 @ The Empty Bottle
John Darnielle has recorded so much under his Mountain Goats moniker that it's getting hard to track the shades of heartbreak....
Ongoing Events
Lucky Plush Productions: Cinderbox 18
Thursday 11/15 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Julia Rhoads — Chicago's eight-year queen of clean, fluid choreography with surreal and comic touches — dives headfirst into uncharted waters...
Grace Chicago Curatorial Project: Making Peace & Ann Toebbe: Stained Glass
Thursday 11/15 @ threewalls
You might expect a group of artists and art administrators to meet in art school, or perhaps while commiserating over a...
Thursday 11/15 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Taking its title from the 1968 Rolling Stones song, Sympathy for the Devil is grouped into geographical vignettes: New York, West...
Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination
Thursday 11/15 @ Museum of Science and Industry
Though it's presented as a chance to learn about the possibilities of real science, the true draw of this exhibit is...
Thursday 11/15 @ Music Box Theatre
The rough gem of the Music Box's Midnight Movies series, The Telephone Book is everything you could ask for in cult...
Thursday 11/15 @ Printworks Gallery
British fashion-magazine editor and style icon Isabella Blow was a true original — a modern-day Marchesa Casati who dared to wear...
Thursday 11/15 @ Gallery 40000
Gallery director Britton Bertran based Guns & Ammo on Newton's third law of motion: for every action, there is an equal...
Thursday 11/15 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Graphic-designer-turned-painter Cody Hudson makes a splash with the most recent in a series of MCA 12 x 12 solo shows, There...
The Wonder-Cabinet Of Dr. Wunderkammer
Thursday 11/15 @ Hamlin Park Fieldhouse Theater
The most archly purple promo in years sets this show up as a curio cabinet of rare and exotic dances "of...
Thursday 11/15 @ Gallery 400
Tonight, artist Melanie Schiff and Gallery 400 director Lorelei Stewart come together to talk about their co-curated exhibition I Am Eyebeam,...
Thursday 11/15 @ Block Museum, Northwestern University
Alfred Hitchcock's legendary attention to detail in his mise en scene — literally, "setting the scene" within the cinematic frame through...
Rendered in Black and Rendered
Thursday 11/15 @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
Showing work from three series — Rendered in Black, Events Are, and Reading — New York-based artist Adam Pendleton displays an...
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
Thursday 11/15 @ Music Box Theatre
Twenty-one years after the release of the last Clash album, director Julien Temple's Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten examines the...
Thursday 11/15 @ The Neo-Futurarium
In an ironic twist, many of the 20th-century "anti-art" movements, like Dada and Surrealism, have arguably become enshrined in the canon...
Thursday 11/15 @ moniquemeloche gallery
American painterly realism makes a comeback in these paintings by Maine native Christopher Patch. Matinicus began when Patch set out onboard...
Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery
Thursday 11/15 @ Smart Museum of Art
This selection of master works from Yale's prestigious collection is a thrill ride through the annals of art history, from a...
Thursday 11/15 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Tokyo-born, Chicago-educated Satoru Aoyama would be a photorealist painter, if his preferred medium weren't a needle and thread. His striking pictorial...
19th Annual Polish Film Festival
Thursday 11/15 @ Various locations
The 19th Annual Polish Film Festival promises Chicago — second only to Warsaw in our number of Polish-speaking residents — a...
Thursday 11/15 @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
Steppenwolf director Anna D. Shapiro has elicited profoundly felt performances from her ensemble that bring fresh life to well-worn roles. Disregarding...
Thursday 11/15 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
William Pope.L, the self-proclaimed "friendliest black artist in America," first received recognition for belly-crawling along city streets, often dressed in costume,...
Thursday 11/15 @ The Renaissance Society
How the United States' ill-fated war in Iraq resonates in contemporary art — both in literal depictions and creeping undercurrents —...
Thursday 11/15 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
As part of the citywide Festival of Maps, kicking off at the Field Museum on November 2, curator Tricia Van Eck...
