Events on Sunday, November 18
Sunday 11/18 @ Deadtech
Artist/musician Jeremy Boyle takes on installation with an invigorating, stylized approach. His "self-playing instruments" consist of an elaborately wired, MIDI-controlled guitar...
Sunday 11/18 @ The Empty Bottle
As a self-described "academic refugee of indie pop," Chicago's Stephen Becker, PhD, (aka Le Concorde) crafts whip-smart lyrics and rousing melodies...
Sunday 11/18 @ Old Town School of Folk Music
What's the point of owning Technics gear without the actual techniques? Take an introductory adventure on the wheels of steel at...
Sunday 11/18 @ SmartBar
SmartBar's weekly Sunday-night party is ominously called the End, but that doesn't seem to stop folks from descending the stairs and...
Sunday 11/18 @ Women & Children First Bookstore
Aired each Friday on NPR's Morning Edition and archived at the Library of Congress, the oral histories recorded by StoryCorps are...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 11/18 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Political documentaries aren't entertaining unless controversy or conspiracy is involved, and director Robert Stone's Oswald's Ghost has both in spades. Looking...
Sunday 11/18 @ 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...
Sunday 11/18 @ 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...
Sunday 11/18 @ Congress Theater
Is there anything more tiresome than punk-rock nostalgia? Of course! There’s a reason you still hear Naked Raygun blasting nightly at...
Sunday 11/18 @ Mini Dutch Gallery
Sculptor/painter Vivien Park makes an ambitious debut for her first solo show at Mini Dutch, the recently opened Logan Square apartment...
Sunday 11/18 @ 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
Sunday 11/18 @ Various locations
The 19th Annual Polish Film Festival promises Chicago — second only to Warsaw in our number of Polish-speaking residents — a...
Sunday 11/18 @ 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...
Sunday 11/18 @ 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,...
Sunday 11/18 @ 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...
Sunday 11/18 @ The Renaissance Society
How the United States' ill-fated war in Iraq resonates in contemporary art — both in literal depictions and creeping undercurrents —...
Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination
Sunday 11/18 @ 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...
Sunday 11/18 @ 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...
Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery
Sunday 11/18 @ 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...
Sunday 11/18 @ 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...
