Events on Thursday, November 15

Jimmy Eat World w/ Viva Voce

Music

Jimmy Eat World

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... 

<i>Rear Window</i> (1954)

Film

Rear Window

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... 

Mountain Goats w/ Bowerbirds

Music

Mountain Goats w/ Bowerbirds

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:  <i>Cinderbox 18</i>

Dance

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: <i>Making Peace</i> & Ann Toebbe: <i>Stained Glass</i>

Art

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... 

<i>Sympathy for the Devil</i>

Art

Sympathy for the Devil

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... 

<i>Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination</i>

Film

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... 

<i>The Telephone Book</i> (1971)

Film

The Telephone Book

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... 

<i>Chalk</i>

Theatre

Chalk

Thursday 11/15 @ Chicago Cultural Center, Studio Theater

The British faux documentary Death of a President raised eyebrows last year by imagining the assassination of the sitting American chief... 

Audrey Niffenegger: <i>Elegy for Isabella Blow</i>

Art

Audrey Niffenegger

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... 

<i>Guns & Ammo</i>

Art

Guns & Ammo

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... 

Cody Hudson

Art

Cody Hudson

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... 

Khecari Dance Theatre presents the Wonder-Cabinet Of Dr. Wunderkammer

Dance

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... 

<i>I Am Eyebeam</i>

Special Event

I Am Eyebeam

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,... 

<i>Casting a Shadow: Creating the Alfred Hitchcock Film</i>

Art

Casting a Shadow

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... 

Adam Pendleton: <i>Rendered in Black and Rendered</i>

Art

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... 

<i>Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten</i>

Film: Documentary

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... 

<i>Mr. Fluxus</i>

Performing Arts

Mr. Fluxus

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... 

Christopher Patch: <i>Matinicus</i>

Art

Christopher Patch

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

Art

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... 

Satoru Aoyama: Ancient Pixels

Art

Satoru Aoyama: Ancient Pixels

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

Film

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... 

<i>The Crucible</i>

Theatre

The Crucible

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... 

William Pope.L

Art

William Pope.L

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,... 

<I>Meanwhile in Baghdad…</I>

Art

Meanwhile in Baghdad…

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 —... 

<i>Mapping the Self</i>

Art

Mapping the Self

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...