All events on Wednesday November 21
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The Bad Sleep Well
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Wednesday Nov 21, 2007 (7pm) @ Max Palevsky Cinema
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The Doc Films student society hosts an Akira Kurosawa take on Shakespeare as part of its long-running screening series. A modern Japanese reworking of Hamlet,... View details »
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Margot at the Wedding
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Wednesday Nov 21, 2007 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
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Director Noah Baumbach's breakthrough film, The Squid and the Whale, featured Laura Linney and Jeff Daniels as a squabbling Brooklyn couple whose dissolving marriage was... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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The Pipettes
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Wednesday Nov 21, 2007 (7:30pm) @ Double Door
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The Pipettes' road to semi-stardom started as a nostalgia trip: a purely retro exercise, in which three female singers and their crack rhythm-and-blues band, the... View details »
- Music: DJ
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Green Velvet
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Wednesday Nov 21, 2007 (10pm–2am) @ SmartBar
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Do house music and Christianity have something in common? For Green Velvet (Curtis Jones), they do; this DJ favors both the Good Book and Chicago... View details »
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Casting a Shadow
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Wednesday Nov 21, 2007 (10am–8pm) @ Block Museum, Northwestern University
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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 »
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Sympathy for the Devil
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Wednesday Nov 21, 2007 (10am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art
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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 »
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William Pope.L
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Wednesday Nov 21, 2007 (10:30am–5pm) @ The Art Institute of Chicago
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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 »
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Satoru Aoyama: Ancient Pixels
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Wednesday Nov 21, 2007 (8am–7pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center
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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 »
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Audrey Niffenegger
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Wednesday Nov 21, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Printworks Gallery
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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 »
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Cody Hudson
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Wednesday Nov 21, 2007 (4am) @ Museum of Contemporary Art
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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 »
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Christopher Patch
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Wednesday Nov 21, 2007 (noon–5pm) @ Monique Meloche
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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 »
- Film
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The Telephone Book
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Wednesday Nov 21, 2007 @ Music Box Theatre
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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 »
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Mapping the Self
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Wednesday Nov 21, 2007 (4am) @ Museum of Contemporary Art
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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 »
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Meanwhile in Baghdad…
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Wednesday Nov 21, 2007 (10am–5pm) @ The Renaissance Society
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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 »
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Oswald's Ghost
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Wednesday Nov 21, 2007 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
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Political documentaries aren't entertaining unless controversy or conspiracy is involved, and director Robert Stone's Oswald's Ghost has both in spades. Looking back at the by-now-mythic... View details »
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John Parot
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Wednesday Nov 21, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Western Exhibitions
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Jack Daniel's bottles, pink rope, dripping caves, and mesmerizing tendrils are just a few things you will encounter at Biological Exuberance, John Parot's new show.... View details »
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Andrea Myers
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Wednesday Nov 21, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Lisa Boyle Gallery
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Decay is rarely a stunning sight, but Chicago artist Andrea Myers gives it an element of real beauty. Her continuous use of reduction and accrual... View details »
